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Updated: May 11, 2025
She could hear the loud ticking of the tall old clock on the staircase tick-tack, tick-tack, tick-tack. Sometimes the sound of it deceived her into thinking it was a footstep on the stairs, and she would sit up eagerly in bed, listening intently. But always the hoped-for sound resolved itself back into the eternal tick-tack of the clock.
The stillness of the room was unbroken, and one could hear the loud tick-tack of the little clock telling off the seconds with business-like exactness. The evening was sultry. Although the windows of the dining-room were wide open, not a breath of air came in from the garden.
At which young Sidney kisses her finger-tips and bids her pay the debt in favours; for the way to the king was through the influence of Castlemaine or Portsmouth or other of the dissolute crew. Round other tables sat men and women, old and young, playing away estate and fortune and honour at tick-tack or ombre or basset.
The lank youth said nothing, but watched his guest languidly and apparently without curiosity. Presently the clicking of the telegraph instrument increased in rapidity and emphasis and the operator went to the table. The rapid tick aroused Prescott from the sleep into which he was falling. "Tick-tack, tick-tack, tick-tack," went the instrument.
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