For a moment there was silence, broken only by the ticking of a tiny clock on the mantel, then Van Landing spoke. It was a little, round clock, with a bell on top, the dollar and a half kind sold in country groceries and cross-roads stores. When you see her again, she is lying on an easy-chair, packed as carefully and tightly as a valuable clock that is to be sent to the Antipodes. The little clock on the mantel-piece ticked away busily in the silence, and Dicky instantly thought of the hunchback. He speaks in a bass voice, with a prolonged rattle and wheeze in his throat, like an old-fashioned clock, which buzzes before it strikes.
The nine mellow strokes, by which she was now apprised of the hour, were a message from the great clock at Westminster itself. Not a sound was heard, save the ticking of the old fashioned clock on the mantle piece, as its hands slowly marked the fleeting minutes. A cheap clock and a broken-down couch, the latter a discard from the original outfit of the cottage, made up the list of furniture.
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He looked down at the big clock: "It's a full hour. Everybody in the vast audience watched the large clock as the fingers crept slowly on, the large hand gradually drawing nearer to the quarter-past. Shortly before the moon-faced clock nailed on the wall struck the hour of nine with a great internal whirring, some one tapped lightly on the door. At her scathing words the Man straightened up very suddenly in his chair and gazed over at the little clock in a startled sort of way. Every blessed thing in that room is being coated with enamel paint, from the sofa to the fire-irons, from the sideboard to the eight-day clock. The wait was very long the hands of the great clock pointed to six, and still the train lay motionless along the platform. A pause followed, while the little clock on the mantel-piece ticked hurriedly, as if anxious to get on and pass over an awkward moment.
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