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I would like to ask his pardon. Ah, yes, yes!" Then he sat down and took her hand, and held it long in the silence. "It all feels so empty so empty," she said at last, as the tower-clock struck hollow on the air. The old man could not reply, but he drew her close to him, and Hovey, from the door, saw his tears dropping on her white hair. Gaston went to Manchester Square.
Watches were held in hands of feverish men, who stood, now scrutinizing their small dial-plates, and then, with neck thrown back, gazing toward the belfry, as if the eye might foretell that which could only be made sensible to the ear; for, as yet, there was no dial to the tower-clock. The hour hands of a thousand watches now verged within a hair's breadth of the figure 1.
He turned in rather abruptly at a side door of the dark-red pile of building which boasted the illuminated tower-clock and a jutting ell with barred windows. She drew back. "No, you don't! Aw, no, you don't! Whatta you think I yam? Cora's! Tell it to the poodles and the great Danes!" He shoved her with scant ceremony beyond the heavy door.
The sun sank, sank deeper; a tower-clock in the city somewhere boomed forth the hour. Irgens continued to speak, impressively, dreamily, warmly. He might go into the solitudes this summer, he said; settle down in a cabin by the water and row around at night.
Two or three ships bound for foreign ports were anchored scarcely fifty rods away. She could hear the songs and the laughter of the sailors. She waited until these sounds had subsided. The girl sitting close in the shadow of one of the huge posts was not observed by the few stragglers strolling past. One o'clock sounded from some far-off tower-clock; then the half hour struck.
They were rebuilt soon afterwards, in much better style. Previous to the completion of the new cupola, our city fathers contracted with Messrs. Sperry & Co., the celebrated tower-clock makers of Broadway, to build a clock for it, at a cost not exceeding four thousand dollars, that our citizens might place the utmost reliance upon, as a time-keeper of unvarying correctness.
The impatient return to "Brillon" cut Jacques like a whip. "Monsieur," he suddenly said, his face glowing, his hands opening nervously, "we have eat, we have drunk, we have had the dance and the great music here: is it enough? Sometimes as you sleep you call out, and you toss to the strokes of the tower-clock. When we lie on the Plains of Yath from sunset to sunrise, you never stir then.
Then two youths with cigars at an impertinent angle, hands in pockets, speaking loudly. Behind them another woman; finally, a couple of men hurrying to catch up with her. But now one tower-clock after another booms forth the twelve solemn strokes all over the city; the cafes empty themselves, and from the music-halls crowds of people swarm into the streets.
When the tower-clock struck one, the Junker began to regard his wager as half-lost; but comforted himself with the reflection, that a loss to one's wife is merely a transfer from one hand to the other. In short, the night passed, and as far as the tower-chamber was concerned as quietly as if there had never been ghost or goblin in the world.
Crossing the street, she came down rather splashily in a pool of water, wetting and staining the light slippers. "Aw!" she repeated, scolding and stamping down at them. "Aw! Aw! You!" Across from the gloomy pile of old Jefferson Market, she stood, reading up at an illuminated tower-clock, softly, her lips moving. "Nine ten e-lev-hun "
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