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Updated: May 7, 2025
That struggle to find his hands seemed to last for ever he must find them! After that go down all standing after that! Everything round him was red. Then the red cloud cleared just a little, and he could hear the clock "tick-tick-tick"; a faint sensation spread from his shoulders down to his wrists, down his palms; and yes he could feel the bottle!
Because his ears were keen, he heard also the little alarm clock in the kitchen tick-tick-tick on the shelf behind the stove where Jean kept it daytimes. Peaceful enough, for all the silence; yet Lite reached back and laid his fingers upon the smooth butt of his six-shooter and opened the door with his left hand, which was more or less awkward. He pushed the door open and stepped inside.
Through the warm richness of her tresses his lips pressed her lips, and they ceased to breathe. And up to their ears, pounding through that enveloping shroud of her hair came the tick-tick-tick of the watch in his pocket. "Joanne," he whispered. "Yes, John." "You are not afraid of death?" "No, not when you are holding me like this, John."
Y-a-as, I swallered that glass by main strength, like a snake would a hop-toad kinder lengthened myself until I was outside of it. "'Tick-tick-tick, remarks William's clock on the wall. When it had arranged its hands before its mild countenance in such a way as to inform me that twenty minutes, mountain time, had done all the elapsin' possible, I slid my anxious gaze on William.
You can't ease it up much with a string measured out for all the way down!" The young woman operator at the little telegraph station at Dorbury Upper Village heard the call-click as she unlocked the room and came in after her half-hour supper time. She set the wires and responded, and laid the paper slip under the wonderful pins. "Tick-tick-tick; tick-tick; tick-tick-tick-tick," and so on.
They were safe in the theatre by now. Oh, she was afraid! She was alone in the house worse than alone! Jenny cowered. She felt she could not answer the summons. Tick-tick-tick said the clock, striking across the silences. Again Jenny made a step forward. Then, terrifying her, the noise began once more the thunderous knock, the ping-ping-ping-whir of the bell....
He felt her trembling, throbbing, and her arms tightened about him. And now, again up through the smother of her hair, came the tick-tick-tick of his watch. He felt her fumbling at his watch pocket, and in a moment she was holding the timepiece between them, so that the light of the lantern fell on the face of it. "It is three minutes of four, John."
It was so still, Gwen could hear the swift tick-tick-tick in the watch-pocket at the bed's head; and, when she listened to it, her consciousness that the big clock in the kitchen was at odds with the hearth-cricket, rebuking his speed solemnly, grew less and less. For the sound we look to hear comes out of the silence, when no other sound has in it the force to speak on its own behalf.
The tick-tick-tick of the watch mocked him to frenzied action. He gripped the arms of the chair with both hands and thrust forward his face against the cold rim of the revolver barrel. "Shoot!" he cried hoarsely, drunk with terror. "Shoot, and be damned!" Before the words were out of his mouth a shot echoed. For the second time in his life Roy lost consciousness.
If every man had more kindness than he had gold, would neighbor ever have to fear neighbor or childther go hungry for love?" The tinker did not answer, and Patsy went on with a deepening intensity: "I'll tell ye a tale a foolish tale that keeps repeating itself over and over in my memory like the tick-tick-tick of a clock.
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