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Updated: June 10, 2025
Dudley was late, and she listened for his footsteps with the composure of a woman from whom the flush of marriage has passed away. His footsteps were as much a part of her days as the ticking of the clock upon the mantel. If the clock were to stop, she would miss the accustomed sound, but so long as it went on she was almost unconscious of its presence.
There was the sign right on it saying, 'Help Yourself. It was there, even if I couldn't read it. Instinck told me them clothes was for me. I took 'em and came in here." He shook out the garments one by one and hung them on a bush, chattering his comments. He set the ticking clock on a stump. The man at the fire slipped a piece of meat between two slabs of toasted bread and began to eat.
One evening she sat before the fire thinking of Philip. Her grandfather had retired earlier than usual. Biribi lay asleep on the veille. There was no sound save the ticking of the clock on the mantel above her head, the dog's slow breathing, the snapping of the log on the fire, and a soft rush of heat up the chimney.
"But I know you will stand by us," she said, amid her tears; "it is all the comfort I have and Lucy " There was no sound of any footstep on the stair nothing but the ticking of the timepiece on the mantelshelf, and the rustling of the curtains in the soft morning breeze which came through the open window, and Miss Wodehouse's crying.
For above the steady patter of the rain she could hear the old clock ticking. And to her, knowing what she did, it seemed to say: "Tell him tell him Cynthia wants you to tell him." So she just sat down in an old chair and waited for Cynthia's son to find that square trunk with the brass nail-heads. She tried to read something in some faded yellow fashion papers but the letters jumped and blurred.
I have often " She paused abruptly as her eyes rested upon a narrow shelf on which a little clock was steadily ticking. Stepping quickly forward, she reached out her right hand, seized something and held it forth. It was a woman's innocent side-comb, but to the captain and his son it appeared more terrible than the most dangerous bomb. They stared as if they had never beheld such a thing before.
The minutes passed slowly and solemnly as the Old Year's "face grew sharp and thin" under the ticking of the clock over the kneeling preacher and his deacons. The minutes dwindled down to seconds, and then "Alack, our friend is gone! Close up his eyes, tie up his chin Step from the corpse, and let him in That standeth at the door." "Now, as we have passed into the New Year," said Mr.
When Burns, at the sound of a clock ticking somewhere, rubbed his eyes with his fists striking in and reluctantly opened them, Macauley spoke briskly: "See here I'm going to give you a bracer. I know your confounded notions, but they don't cut any figure when you need something to pull you together the way you do to-night."
The family are all abed, and I can hear nothing save the crackling of the fire now burning low on the hearth, and the ticking of the clock in the corner.
"Only a few rings, Helene Vauquier thought," said Besnard. "But she was not sure." "Ah!" said Hanaud. "Well, let us make sure!" and, taking the list from the safe, he compared it with the jewellery in the cases on the floor, ticking off the items one by one. When he had finished he knelt down again, and, thrusting his hand into the hole, felt carefully about.
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