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We see the joyous dance which is of central dramatic interest for twenty seconds, then for three seconds the wife in her luxurious boudoir looking at the dial of the clock, for three seconds again the grieved parents eagerly listening for any sound on the stairs, and anew for twenty seconds the turbulent festival.
They were all in the major's workroom before Allan had the chance of trying a more attractive subject. There, on the top of a rough wooden case, which evidently contained the machinery, was the wonderful clock. The dial was crowned by a glass pedestal placed on rock-work in carved ebony; and on the top of the pedestal sat the inevitable figure of Time, with his everlasting scythe in his hand.
But he would have no denial. ‘The thing is to be done,’ said he; ‘so just set about it at once.’ Well; we got a ‘Ferguson’s Astronomy,’ and studied the subject together. Many a sore head I had while making the necessary calculations to adapt the dial to the latitude of Killingworth.
So, when Margaret Fuller gave it up, at the end of the second volume, Emerson consented to become its editor. "I cannot bid you quit 'The Dial," says Carlyle, "though it, too, alas, is Antinomian somewhat! Perge, perge, nevertheless." In the next letter he says: "I love your 'Dial, and yet it is with a kind of shudder.
That his father had taken some fatal step with regard to the property had done some foolish thing for which he could not forgive himself, that was the idea with which his mind was filled. He waited, with his watch in his hand, till the dial showed him that it was exactly eight; and then, with a sinking heart, he walked slowly out of the dining-room along the passage, and into his father's study.
Look! just now, it is ten o'clock in the morning." "Exactly." "Another application of electricity. This dial hanging in front of us indicates the speed of the Nautilus. An electric thread puts it in communication with the screw, and the needle indicates the real speed. Look! now we are spinning along with a uniform speed of fifteen miles an hour." "It is marvelous!
"What makes dogs bark at night?" "Maybe a fox," Rick replied. "Or a ghost?" Rick sat bolt upright. "Maybe!" Scotty swung to a sitting position on the side of his bed. "I've been listening to you twisting and turning for an hour. If you're going to keep me awake, it might as well be useful. What say we go look?" Rick looked at the luminous dial of his watch. It was past midnight.
What a mealy lot these English are, to make such a fuss about a trifle! But I am too soft-hearted to blow her up. Tell her to meet me in half an hour by the broken dial, and to bring the brat, and all her affairs in a bundle such as she can carry, or kick down the hill before her. In half an hour, do you understand? And if you care for your stiff old bones, get out of the way by that time."
Notwithstanding this, however, neither of them had any knowledge whatsoever as to certain details of the business how to make a dial, temper hairsprings, polish steel, or do watch-gilding properly and none of their men had either.
During this period Emerson contributed many articles in prose and verse to the "Atlantic Monthly," and several to "The Dial," a second periodical of that name published in Cincinnati. Some of these have been, or will be, elsewhere referred to. "Boston Hymn." "Voluntaries." Other Poems. "May-Day and other Pieces." "Remarks at the Funeral Services of Abraham Lincoln." Essay on Persian Poetry.
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