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Updated: May 29, 2025
How often she glanced up at the clock on the wall during those long hours, when the minute hand was surely stuck at half-past three, and the regular tic-tac seemed to fill the quiet room with its sleepy droning. So hot, so still, so long were the hours of those summer afternoons! The silence was broken now and then by the sounds of a distant piano.
The mingled murmur of the loud responses, in those rhythmic phrases, so simple, yet so fervent, almost as if every tenth heart-beat, instead of its dull tic-tac, articulated itself as "Good Lord, deliver us!
"Let's take a walk," suggested Ted. "Aw, that's no fun." "What'll we do then?" Bob thought a few seconds. "I'll tell you," he said. "We'll put a tic-tac on Mrs. Mooney's window. She lives all alone, and she'll think it's a ghost rapping." "Good! Come on. Have you got some string?" "Sure."
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