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The long and the short of it is, perhaps, that music, being a universal art, like a universal watch-key, will set going the complicated cogs and springs of every soul and yet not regulate or assure its rhythm.
"With a needle and thread I brought from home, and with another old pocket," said Frank. "Well, you air the cutest! Say, what'll ye tax to make me one? I don't care to hev it very large; a small watch, so." A dry proposal, that. It was not enough to furnish watch and watch-key; but Frank was required also to provide a watch-pocket. "What do ye say?" asked Seth, with a shrewd squint.
"It is so long since I read that particular book, sir," returned the mate, diligently thumbing his watch-key, "that I should be diffident about expressing an opinion. I think, however, a little Bible might do him good." "It is not an easy matter to hit a conscience exactly between wind and water.
"No, 'tis I that owe thanks to you," he said, looking down meditatively at the carpet and twirling his watch-key between his finger and thumb. "Poor Art! this ought to have been his last year, and doubtless would if he had only kept out of bad company." "Ah, Wal, I hope that you will never forget that 'evil communications corrupt good manners." "I hope not, Elsie.
"You have no occasion to thank me," retorted Mr Denham; "you are indebted entirely to the tyrannical customs and expectations of society for the permission. Good-bye, you may convey my respects to your mother." "I will, sir." "Have you anything further to say?" asked Mr Denham, observing that the youth stood looking perplexedly at the ground, and twirling his watch-key.
As we were passing a dingy-looking establishment, where some doubtful articles of virtu appeared in the window, an idea seized me, as new as it was comprehensive of my difficulties. I went in, ostensibly to purchase a watch-key, really to engage in negotiations of a more serious and complicated nature.
Desiring to replace a broken watch-key I found a repair shop and endeavored to make my inquiries in Russian. "Monsieur parle le Francais, je crois," was the response to my attempt, and greatly facilitated the transaction of business. Before I left New York an acquaintance showed me a photograph of a Siberian, who proved to be the watchmaker thus encountered.
He was twisting a watch-key of the kind called a "criquet," which Breguet had lately invented. "The fellow is fine-looking," thought Joseph, admiring with a painter's eye the eager face, the air of strength, and the intellectual gray eyes which Max had inherited from his father, the noble. "My uncle must be a fearful bore, and that handsome girl takes her compensations.
It is said that Switzerland is one of the happy hunting-grounds of the watch-key collector, but there are many curio shops, both on the Continent and in this country, where fancy keys can be bought still at reasonable prices. In some localities special designs and metal have been made.
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