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Updated: May 28, 2025

The tall clock still ticked in monotonous warning; the blanket-screen, haply innocent of soap since we last described it, many-storied and polyballaded, still unfolded its ample leaves "rich with the spoils of time;" the spit and the musket yet hung from the wall in amicable proximation.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Paul Clifford — Complete

The tall clock still ticked in monotonous warning; the blanket-screen, haply innocent of soap since we last described it, many-storied and polyballaded, still unfolded its ample leaves "rich with the spoils of time;" the spit and the musket yet hung from the wall in amicable proximation.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Paul Clifford — Volume 07