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Updated: June 13, 2025
Of the old man I would have the round box containing the strange god that says by day and by night 'tick-tick'." "He means my watch," answered the old man, "it was a present from my dead wife to me on our wedding day, but he shall have it." The boys also promised their "fetishes." There was a guttural sound of satisfaction from outside the cell as the bargain was struck and then all was silent.
"See that you understand that machine, Lamoine," said Picard. "Set it at half an hour." Lamoine, turning the hand to the figure VI on the dial, set the works in motion, and to the accompaniment of its quiet tick-tick they drank their beer. "He seems to understand his business," said Lamoine. "Yes," answered Picard. "What heady stuff this English beer is.
His intention was to turn her face so that she should see the boys walking the plank one by one. But he never reached her, he never heard the cry of anguish he hoped to wring from her. He heard something else instead. It was the terrible tick-tick of the crocodile.
No, I would not. "He says tick-tack to the clock," Irene said, trying to snare me. "Pooh!" said I. "Other little 'uns jest says 'tick-tick," she told me, with a flush of pride. "I prefer 'tick-tick," I said, whereat she departed in dudgeon.
The mulatto introduced him "Missis, fine young gentleman, all over gold and velvet " then muttered to herself as she shut the door, "fine young gentleman, he! apprentice to him who makes the tick-tick."
Then on again went the steady and wearisome tick-tick of the pendulum, for a quarter of an hour, half an hour, and three- quarters, till the utterly fatigued valet was about to knock down a few walking-sticks and umbrellas, and make a general noise of reminder to his master as to how the time was going, when, to his great relief, he heard the inner door open at last, and the voice of the mysterious visitor ring out in clear, precise accents.
They were more grave and silent than usual, but otherwise things went on in their ordinary way. Griselda spent the morning "at her tasks," in the ante-room, but was thankful to get away from the tick-tick of the clock in the corner and out into the garden. But there, alas! it was just as bad.
They were more grave and silent than usual, but otherwise things went on in their ordinary way. Griselda spent the morning "at her tasks," in the ante-room, but was thankful to get away from the tick-tick of the clock in the corner and out into the garden. But there, alas! it was just as bad.
She had plenty to think of and wonder about, and she liked to do her lessons in the ante-room, with the tick-tick of the clock in her ears, and the feeling that perhaps the cuckoo was watching her through some invisible peep-hole in his closed doors. "And if he sees," thought Griselda, "if he sees how hard I am trying to do my lessons well, it will perhaps make him be quick about 'considering."
Magdalen further discovered that Thekla's name in common use was "Tickle," or else "Tick-tick"; Paulina was, of course, Paula or Polly; Vera had her old baby title of Flapsy, which somehow suited her restless nervous motions, and Agatha had become Nag.
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