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No, you wouldn't know about him he's only an old friend of your mother's and mine." Gradually Ronald's insistence became less difficult to overcome. "I'm set in my ways, Ronny, that's about the size of it; I like to go tick-ticking along like a clock. I always did. And when you come bouncing in I never feel sure there's enough for dinner or that I haven't sent Maria out for the evening.
It was the warning alarm for the gangsters: they had fled. Suddenly to Shirley's straining ears came the tick-ticking of an alarm clock, from the corner of the room to his right. He dare not look at it. Warren's eyes grew black with the Great Fear! "You fool, you've locked all the entrances, and sent the men away. That clock will ring in exactly five minutes.
Outside it was nearly dark, and inside it was not much more cheerful for the fire was nearly out, and no lamps were lighted; only the cuckoo clock went on tick-ticking briskly as usual. "I hate winter," said Griselda, pressing her cold little face against the colder window-pane, "I hate winter, and I hate lessons.
The noise had stopped, the listener whispered to us when we touched him gently on the leg, so we lay there all three listening for it to start again, the tick-ticking of our wrist-watches and the pulsing of our hearts sounding loud to our strained ears. Three five seven minutes passed by without a sound, and then suddenly there came a slight thud.
Outside it was nearly dark, and inside it was not much more cheerful for the fire was nearly out, and no lamps were lighted; only the cuckoo clock went on tick-ticking briskly as usual. "I hate winter," said Griselda, pressing her cold little face against the colder window-pane, "I hate winter, and I hate lessons.
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