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Updated: May 29, 2025
Yet it was possible in still weather to hear the muted bombilation of the sleepless city and when the wind was in the north to count the hammer-strokes of the great bell of St. Paul's.
In the theatre as in the publishing trade, and in the publishing trade as in the newspaper-office it was everywhere the same; there was not a word of art or of glory. The steady beat of the great pendulum, Money, seemed to fall like hammer-strokes on his heart and brain.
Pelle did not lose heart; he must begin all over again, that was all. On the morning after the defeat was an accomplished fact he was up early. His resolution to go ahead with redoubled energies, he had, so to speak, slept into him, so that it pervaded his body and put energy and decision into his hammer-strokes. He whistled as the work progressed rapidly under his hands.
Yakob held his head in his hand and listened. At each stroke he shut his eyes. The soldiers brought him a cup of hot coffee; he drank it and lighted his pipe. The murmuring of the brook, punctuated by the hammer-strokes, stimulated his thoughts till they became clearer, limpid as the stream. 'It was I...it was I... he silently confided to all the fresh voices of the morning.
The left-hand one was partly open, granting entrance to the autumn sunshine. Ulrich dismissed the servant, took the mementos of his mother in his hand, and listened to the hammer-strokes, that echoed from within. The familiar sound recalled pleasant memories of his childhood and cooled his hot blood. Count Philipp was right. His father was an old man, and entitled to demand respect from his son.
It was one of the many places where American units had been taken to plug the damaged French lines. There was a reserve battalion near by, and outside this village a group of men were at work, putting up tents for a hospital. Some thirty miles ahead was the front, and you heard the guns off and on, a low sullen roar, punctuated with hammer-strokes f big fellows.
At first it seemed simply a formless mass of black vapour, but very gradually it assumed the outline of a Shape which did not seem human. I laid down my pen, and, with my heart thumping hammer-strokes of fear, looked at this strange Darkness gathered as it were in one place and blocking out the silver gleam of the moon. As I looked, all the light in my room was suddenly extinguished.
The old man bowed himself out with a dignity that was more real than hers, and it had, as well, a touch of contempt in it. The moment the door closed behind him, Mrs. Swinton dropped into a chair, white and haggard, gasping for breath, with her heart beating great hammer-strokes that sent the blood to her brain.
Cover the white flesh with caresses it is public property! a dozen kisses more or less will not signify! So I madly thought as I crouched among the trees the tigerish wrath within me making the blood beat in my head like a hundred hammer-strokes. "Nay then, my love," he replied to her, "it is almost a pity Fabio is dead!
"I think I love him, too," replied Hare, simply. With an effort he left her at last and mounted the grassy slope and climbed high up among the tottering yellow crags; and there he battled with himself. Whatever the charm of Mescal's surrender, and the insistence of his love, stern hammer-strokes of fairness, duty, honor, beat into his brain his debt to the man who had saved him.
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