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It was the noon-hour. Maria glanced anxiously at her sister as she entered. "Why, darling, what is the matter?" she cried. "Nothing," replied Evelyn. An impulse of loyalty seized her. She would not repeat, not even to Maria, the unkind words which Mr. Lee had used towards her. "But you look so pale, dear," said Maria. "It was warm in there," said Evelyn, with a quiet, dejected air unusual to her.
Thus he could enjoy a freshly cooked meal while the others had to be satisfied with the taste of warmed-up food, and he also had the satisfaction of spending a minimum of time and strength upon what was a necessity. Only in bad weather did the two ride home; but that made the long one lose his noon-hour nap which he never failed to take after lunch in one of the factory sheds.
Renson and I dashed for the laborers' mess-halls, where hundreds of sun-bronzed foreigners, divided only as to color, packed pell-mell around a score of wooden tables heavily stocked with rough and tumble food yet so different from the old French catch as catch can days when each man owned his black pot and toiled all through the noon-hour to cook himself an unsanitary lunch.
There were mesquites on the ridge, and Duane sought the shade beneath them. It was the noon-hour, with hot, glary sun and no wind. Here Duane had to have out his fight. Duane was utterly unlike himself; he could not bring the old self back; he was not the same man he once had been. But he could understand why. It was because of Ray Longstreth. Temptation assailed him. To have her his wife!
For it was Mercablis who, for half a life-time, invented, rehearsed, and kept secret till the moment of its display the noon-hour sensational surprise for each day of games in the Colosseum.
Six months from to-day at noon my will must be read; and on that day you must marry her if ever aye you must be wedded ere that noon-hour shall have waned. Then then within that hour you shall know the contents of my will; and remember, too, that it is irrevocable!" Harry Kendal reeled back, like one dazed by an awful blow. The suddenness of this affair had taken his breath away.
Nevertheless, as the noon-hour drew near he found himself watching the alarm-bell with growing excitement. "There might be just a chance of Smith visiting the box," he told himself, "just to learn whether I had " From behind him came a sharp "zip, zip," then a whirr. With a bound Jack was on his feet and rushing for the door.
It was there that Livy told his old-world stories by lamplight or at the noon-hour. It was there that Pythagoras explained his ancient theorem. I cannot insist that these companionships and intimacies were typical, but they were sufficiently numerous to disturb any generalizations as to the sacrifices which that democracy demanded for the sake of "social conditions" and economic regularity.
Gorham watched him post his sentries at different street corners in the city he was testing to determine the density of the traffic, finally selecting the location where the crowd passed most steadily all day. "I am never fooled by the noon-hour crowd," Covington confided to him; "they spend all their time eating lunch.
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