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14626 | 10 | Ten o'clock | true | 32 | 34 | The telephone in the lads ' room jangled sharply ten minutes later . Jack sprang to the wire . `` Yes , '' he said in response to a query . `` Ten o'clock ? You 'll call for us ? Very well . '' He replaced the receiver and turned to Frank . |
14626 | 9 | ten minutes
before ten o'clock | true | 39 | 44 | It 's after nine now . The ambassador should be here in fifteen minutes . '' The lads jumped into their clothes , then went downstairs , where they awaited the arrival of the ambassador . The latter arrived ten minutes before ten o'clock , and the three were driven to the War and Navy building . Secretary Daniels received them at once . `` I understand that you come on a very important matter , '' he said . `` Pray , what is it , gentlemen ? '' |
14626 | 8 | eight o'clock | true | 61 | 63 | The lads jumped into the taxi and were driven to the station , where they caught their train with time to spare . It lacked two hours of daylight when they arrived in Richmond . They took a taxi across town to the Chesapeake and Ohio station , where they caught a train for Newport News an hour later . At eight o'clock they were in Newport News , and fifteen minutes later stepped aboard the Essex . `` Glad to see you back , sir , '' said Lieutenant Hetherton , who held the deck . `` I suppose you 've heard -- '' `` Pipe all hands to quarters , Mr. Hetherton , '' Jack interrupted sharply , `` and clear ship for action . We sail within the hour . '' |
14626 | 18 | 6 o'clock in the evening | true | 62 | 67 | `` Well , '' said Captain Griswold , `` you 're a British naval officer and should know something , whether you do or not . But I 'll tell you right now I hope the submarine does n't show up again . '' Nevertheless , Captain Griswold was doomed to disappointment , for the U-87 did reappear . It was almost 6 o'clock in the evening when all on board were startled by a cry from the lookout . `` Submarine on the port bow , sir . '' Instantly all became confusion on the big merchant ship . Passengers , of whom there were perhaps fifty , became greatly excited . |
14626 | 10 | ten o'clock | true | 31 | 33 | `` That 's a foolish question , '' was Frank 's reply . `` Of course I want to go . '' `` All right . Then we 'll catch the ten o'clock train this morning . That will put us in the capital some time before five . '' `` Suits me , '' declared Frank . This program was carried out . |
14626 | 0 | midnight | true | 36 | 37 | `` I agree with you there . There will be plenty of work for us right up to the last minute . '' As it developed the lads were right . `` It was shortly after midnight when Jack was aroused by the third officer . `` Message from Admiral Beatty , sir , '' said the third officer , and passed Jack a slip of paper . Jack read the message , which had been hastily scribbled off by the radio operator . `` German squadron of six vessels reported to have left Helgoland and to be headed for the coast of Scotland , '' the message read . |
14626 | 6 | Six o'clock | true | 64 | 66 | Nevertheless , patrol work was still being done carefully . It had become an axiom of a British sailor that a German was not to be trusted -- that when he appeared the least dangerous , it was time to watch him more carefully . Consequently , in spite of the impending armistice , the vigilance of the British fleet was not relaxed . Six o'clock came , and seven ; and still there had been no word from the scene of the armistice conference . At eight o'clock Frank said : `` I do n't know what we are sitting up for . Something must have gone wrong again . If the armistice had been signed we would know something of it by this time . '' |
14626 | 8 | eight o'clock | true | 77 | 79 | It had become an axiom of a British sailor that a German was not to be trusted -- that when he appeared the least dangerous , it was time to watch him more carefully . Consequently , in spite of the impending armistice , the vigilance of the British fleet was not relaxed . Six o'clock came , and seven ; and still there had been no word from the scene of the armistice conference . At eight o'clock Frank said : `` I do n't know what we are sitting up for . Something must have gone wrong again . If the armistice had been signed we would know something of it by this time . '' `` Hold your horses , '' said Jack . |
14626 | 9 | nine o'clock | true | 62 | 64 | If the armistice had been signed we would know something of it by this time . '' `` Hold your horses , '' said Jack . `` I 'm just as anxious as you are , but there is no use getting excited about it . '' `` Well , '' said Frank , `` if we have n't heard something by nine o'clock , I 'm going to turn in . '' But at nine o'clock no word had been received . `` I know we shall hear nothing to-night , '' said Frank , rising , `` so I 'm going to tumble into my bunk . '' `` Help yourself , '' said Jack , looking up from a book he was reading . |
14626 | 9 | nine o'clock | true | 58 | 60 | `` Hold your horses , '' said Jack . `` I 'm just as anxious as you are , but there is no use getting excited about it . '' `` Well , '' said Frank , `` if we have n't heard something by nine o'clock , I 'm going to turn in . '' But at nine o'clock no word had been received . `` I know we shall hear nothing to-night , '' said Frank , rising , `` so I 'm going to tumble into my bunk . '' `` Help yourself , '' said Jack , looking up from a book he was reading . `` I 'll wait a little longer . '' |
14626 | 10 | ten o'clock | true | 38 | 40 | `` Help yourself , '' said Jack , looking up from a book he was reading . `` I 'll wait a little longer . '' Frank retired to his own cabin and was soon asleep . At ten o'clock , no word having been received , Jack put down his book and rose . `` Frank may be right , '' he told himself . `` At all events , I may as well turn in . My remaining up wo n't alter the facts , whatever they are . '' |
14626 | 0 | midnight | true | 52 | 53 | He undressed , extinguished the light in his cabin and climbed into bed . Aboard practically every ship in the fleet , almost the same scenes were enacted that night . Officers and men alike remained up for hours , awaiting possible word that the armistice had been signed . But at midnight no word had been received , and while the big ships moved about their patrol work , the men slept -- those of them who had no duties to perform at that hour . Only the officers and members of the crew watch , and the night radio operators , remained awake . To Jack it seemed that he had just closed his eyes when he was aroused by the sound of the Essex 's signal whistle . It screeched and screeched . |
14626 | 12 | noon on November 18 | true | 37 | 41 | You have the word of a German admiral . '' `` Very well I shall acquaint you with other details from time to time . '' This was the conversation that Jack heard that day . At noon on November 18 , Jack , together with other commanders , received word from Admiral Beatty to steam toward Harwich , on the English coast , and to take his place in the long line of ships that would be gathered there to receive the surrender of the enemy fleet . Excitement thrilled the crew of the Essex . They were about to witness one of the greatest events of world history and there was n't a man aboard who did n't know it . Nevertheless , there was no confusion , and the Essex steamed rapidly westward . |
14626 | 12 | noon | true | 77 | 78 | `` He probably will , '' was Frank 's reply . `` I have it figured out like this , from what you have told me of the fact that the submarines will be surrendered first : Admiral Tyrwhitt probably will receive the surrender of the U-Boats , while Admiral Beatty will receive the formal surrender of Admiral von Wimpfen himself . '' `` Maybe that 's it , '' Jack agreed . It was well after noon when the Essex sighted the flagship of Admiral Tyrwhitt , the Invincible , and reported for duty . Jack received instructions to lay to just west of the flagship . He obeyed . From time to time now other vessels appeared and reported to Admiral Tyrwhitt and were assigned places in the long line . |
14626 | 7 | seven o'clock | true | 67 | 69 | A full head of steam was kept up , for there was no telling at what moment it might be needed . Came a shrill whistle from the farthest advanced British vessel , followed by a cry from the lookout aboard the destroyer : `` Here they come ! '' As the red sun rose above the horizon the first submarine appeared in sight . Soon after seven o'clock , twenty-seven German submarines were seen in line , accompanied by two destroyers . These latter were the Tibania and the Serra Venta , which accompanied the flotilla to take the submarine crews back to Germany . All submarines were on the surface , with their hatches open and their crews standing on deck . They were flying no flags whatever , and their guns were trained fore and aft in accordance with previous instructions from Admiral Beatty . |
14626 | 12 | noon | true | 76 | 77 | `` I 'm sure I hope so . Certainly the allies will never permit Germany to attain such power that may make all our fighting futile -- they 'll never let her grow strong enough to start another world struggle . '' The lads conversed far into the night before retiring . Nevertheless they were astir at an early hour , awaiting orders that they knew must come that day ; and they came shortly after noon in the shape of a wireless from Lord Hastings . `` Return to Dover at once , '' the message read . Again the Essex put to sea . But it was upon a peaceful voyage that the destroyer was bound now . |
14626 | 10 | ten o'clock | true | 54 | 56 | True , the Essex still showed plainly that she was a ship of war , but her threatening attitude was gone . The war was over and all was quiet aboard . That night the destroyer put into Dover harbor and the lads went ashore to report to Lord Hastings . It was after ten o'clock , but their former commander received them at once in spite of the lateness of the hour . `` Sorry to disturb you at this hour , sir , '' said Jack , `` but I thought perhaps you would wish us to report to you immediately . '' `` And I am glad you did , '' returned Lord Hastings . `` Come , tell me something about yourselves . |
14626 | 0 | midnight | true | 35 | 36 | `` Then let 's hear what you have been doing . I understand you were present at the surrender of the German fleet . Give me some of the details . '' Until long after midnight the three sat there , Dr. Chadwick listening eagerly to the tales of his son and the latter 's chum . But at last he looked at his watch . `` Why , it 's after midnight , '' he exclaimed . `` Time for bed . '' |
14626 | 0 | midnight | true | 48 | 49 | Give me some of the details . '' Until long after midnight the three sat there , Dr. Chadwick listening eagerly to the tales of his son and the latter 's chum . But at last he looked at his watch . `` Why , it 's after midnight , '' he exclaimed . `` Time for bed . '' Frank led the way to the room he had occupied since babyhood . This Jack was to share with him during his stay . |
14627 | 11 | eleven o'clock | true | 122 | 124 | Do you know her name ? '' `` Her name is Early Morn , Blasi , '' said Judith pleasantly . `` Did you never hear the saying , ` There 's gold in the mouth of the early morn . ' '' Blasi made a wry face and began in an angry tone , `` There 's nothing very clever in that '' -- but just then he remembered that when he came out of the house he had intended to come over and say something quite different to Judith ; so he changed his tone quickly , and said , `` Can you lend me a franc or two ; I have just time to do a little business before eleven o'clock , and then I must be back to ring the noon bell ; I must try to help father , a little . '' `` No , no , Blasi , I have no francs for you , '' said Judith decidedly . `` It wants three hours yet of being eleven o'clock . Use those big arms of yours , and they 'll bring you francs enough . '' |
14627 | 11 | eleven o'clock | true | 154 | 156 | `` Did you never hear the saying , ` There 's gold in the mouth of the early morn . ' '' Blasi made a wry face and began in an angry tone , `` There 's nothing very clever in that '' -- but just then he remembered that when he came out of the house he had intended to come over and say something quite different to Judith ; so he changed his tone quickly , and said , `` Can you lend me a franc or two ; I have just time to do a little business before eleven o'clock , and then I must be back to ring the noon bell ; I must try to help father , a little . '' `` No , no , Blasi , I have no francs for you , '' said Judith decidedly . `` It wants three hours yet of being eleven o'clock . Use those big arms of yours , and they 'll bring you francs enough . '' And so saying , she lifted her clothes-basket on her head , and walked away . Blasi stood looking after her , a moment , then he sauntered off , with both hands in his pockets , up the road towards , the shoemaker 's old house . |
14627 | 11 | eleven o'clock | true | 115 | 117 | Dietrich 's mother was there , planting her vegetable bed . He sauntered back and forth for awhile , and when he saw her go to the other corner of the garden , he thought he could now get without being seen , into the room where he heard Dietrich whistling at his work . He went round the garden , and was just going in at the back gate , when he came plump against Gertrude . He went by quickly as if he had had no idea of going in ; and then hung about watching his chance , but as time did not stand still while he waited , it was bye-and-bye eleven o'clock , and he had to go off to ring the noon bell . In the afternoon , neighbor Judith was hoeing in her little garden . Blasi stood hesitating in his door-way , and then came out and stood watching her at her work . `` I am always surprised , Blasi , '' said Judith , looking up from her work , `` to see you in company with a fellow , who steals your money from your pockets , before you know it is there . |
14627 | 4 | four o'clock | true | 88 | 90 | As Judith spoke , she raised her head , and looked Blasi full in the face ; then she bent to her work again . The lad was angry . He had hoped that he was going to get something back of which he had been robbed , and that Judith would help him as she had been a witness of the theft . `` Oh , what a fuss you make over a few minutes , '' he said crossly ; `` I have to go at four o'clock to ring the bell . I think I ought to take a little from the old man . '' `` I should say you took more from him than he had . It has just struck half past two ; do you know how many minutes there are in an hour and a half ? '' |
14627 | 2 | half
past two | true | 62 | 65 | `` Oh , what a fuss you make over a few minutes , '' he said crossly ; `` I have to go at four o'clock to ring the bell . I think I ought to take a little from the old man . '' `` I should say you took more from him than he had . It has just struck half past two ; do you know how many minutes there are in an hour and a half ? '' `` There 's no getting along with you , '' said Blasi , turning away . `` Well , you get along finely without me , so go on and prosper , '' said Judith quickly as the lad disappeared . Blasi had by no means given up his project . |
14627 | 4 | Four o'clock | true | 75 | 77 | Dietrich 's mother was seated near her son ; both were working steadily , the young fellow was chattering and laughing gaily , and his mother answered and laughed too , but they did not stop working all the while . Blasi saw plainly that this was not the time to make his request . He would wait until the mother had gone to the kitchen , as she was sure to do bye-and-bye . Four o'clock came and the great business of his day was at hand ; it was time to ring the bell , and he had to go . At last when evening came Blasi found his opportunity . He stood watching outside the door , when suddenly Dietrich threw it open , and started off with rapid strides . Blasi called out , `` Wait , wait a minute , ca n't you ? |
14627 | 23 | eleven
o'clock at night | true | 77 | 81 | said Jost , `` well , I speak for that kind of work ; sitting in a chaise behind a horse . It 's another part of speech to have to work with one 's hands , as we do . '' `` The doctor has to work with his hands too , I 'm sure of that . And besides , we have our evenings to ourselves , while he may be kept at it till eleven o'clock at night , as he is this evening , and later . '' `` Oh drop all this stupid talk and give us an answer ; yes or no . Will you be a fool and go on pricking your fingers over your work , or will you join me and have things comfortable without working at all ? Anybody but you would be grateful to me for the chance I offer you . |
14627 | 5 | five o'clock | true | 138 | 140 | I 'll meet you here to-morrow evening , and bring some one with me who will explain it all clearly . '' Dietrich agreed to think about it till to-morrow , and now , in high good-humor and increasing confidence in the coming good-fortune , he helped Blasi and Jost to empty the bowl , in a toast to the success of their new projects . It was Veronica 's habit to work on her embroidery for some time after going up to her bedroom , and this evening she was so much interested in her work , that she did not observe the flight of time , until she heard the clock strike one . She put by her sewing , and hastened to prepare for bed , as she must be up and stirring again by five o'clock . Presently she heard the outer door opened softly , and then closed from the inside . She blew out her light and gently opened her bed-room door . The moon lighted up the passageway with a faint beam . |
14627 | 2 | two o'clock in the morning | true | 120 | 125 | I asked Cousin Judith , and she told me it must be grasped like everything else with our hands , that is to say , through work . From that time forward I was eager for work as other children are for play , and the older I grow , the more I strive for the good fortune that can be grasped by work . Even on Sundays I often go to my room to sew , and I shut my door , for my mother does not like to see me sew then . I work on and on , just as long as I can sit at it , even into the night ; sometimes till one and two o'clock in the morning ; yet I do not find the fortune I want . When my hands are busy , my thoughts wander where they will , and I must follow them . But they do not lead to ` fortune , ' but only farther away from it . This offer may bring me a fortune in money and position , but that is not the fortune I want . |
14627 | 11 | eleven
o'clock | true | 89 | 91 | No , he would n't be taken in by that fellow , any longer . As they walked along she had asked him all sorts of questions about himself ; what his business was , and how he succeeded in it and so on . He had not been able to answer very satisfactorily about his business , for since Confirmation , three years before , he had only been waiting for something to turn up . He had had nothing to do except to ring the bell at eleven o'clock , and then stand in the door-way of his house until it was time to ring it again at four . Then towards evening he always went to the Rehbock to hear the news . All this appeared in a new light before his eyes , now that Veronica had inquired about his occupation . Then she had encouraged him so sympathetically to try to get something to do , and promised to be of service to him if she could . |
14627 | 0 | midnight | true | 38 | 39 | I am working at your trade ; you ought to see ! there 's many a fellow that would be glad to do as well as I do ! '' But Dietrich had disappeared . It was past midnight , before he reached the doctor 's house , and he knocked a good many times in vain . At last a maid came down and opened the door , saying as she did so , `` What a plague it is , that everything always comes at once ! He has been called out once to-night , and has hardly got to bed again . It never rains but it pours ! '' |
14623 | 12 | about noon | true | 35 | 37 | `` When shall we be there ? '' asked Russ , for perhaps the tenth time . He was getting a bit tired of train travel . `` We 'll get in at the station about noon , '' his father told him , `` but we have to drive about five miles in a wagon or an auto to get to Grandma Bell 's place . That is on the shore of Lake Sagatook . '' `` And I hope none of you fall in , '' said Mrs. Bunker . `` We 'll get a boat , '' said Russ . |
14684 | 6 | six o'clock | true | 150 | 152 | They lived together happily f ' r twinty years an ' raised wan iv th ' popylous fam ` lies iv people who expect to be supported in their old days . Th ' impechuse lover , spurred on be th ' desire to make good with his queen , slugged , cheated , an ' wurruked his way to th ' head iv th ' railroad . He was no longer Greasy Bill , th ' Oil Can , but Hinnery Aitch Bliggens , th ' Prince iv Industhree . All th ' diff'rent kinds iv money he iver heerd iv rolled into him , large money an ' small , other people 's money , money he 'd labored f ' r an ' money he 'd wished f ` r. Whin he set in his office countin ' it he often left a call f ' r six o'clock f ' r fear he might be dhreamin ' an ' not get to th ' roundhouse on time . `` But , bein ' an American citizen , he soon felt as sure iv himsilf as though he 'd got it all in th ' Probate Coort , an ' th ' arly Spring saw him on a private car speedin ' to New York , th ' home iv Mirth . He was received with open ar-rms be ivry wan in that gr-reat city that knew the combynation iv a safe . He was taken f ' r yacht rides be his fellow Kings iv Fi-nance . |
14684 | 8 | 8
o'clock | true | 99 | 101 | Ye'er mother does n't want it , does she ? No , nor ye'er sister Katie ? No , nor ye'er cousin , nor ye'er aunt ? All that iliction day means to thim is th ' old man goin ' off in th ' mornin ' with a light step an ' fire in his eye , an ' comin ' home too late at night with a dent in his hat , news-boys hollerin ' exthries with th ' news that fifty-four votes had been cast in th ' third precint in th ' sivinth ward at 8 o'clock , an ' Packy an ' Aloysius stealin ' bar ` ls fr 'm th ' groceryman f ' r th ' bone-fire . If they iver join ye an ' make up their minds to vote , they 'll vote . Ye bet they will . ' '' ` Ye see , 't was this way votin ' come about . |
14684 | 10 | 10
o'clock | true | 120 | 122 | If ye'er suffrage club was composed iv a hundhred thousand sturdy ladies it wudde n't be long befure Bill O'Brien wud be sindin ' ye a box iv chocolate creams f ' r ye'er vote . ' '' ` Some day ye may get a vote , but befure ye do I 'll r-read this in th ' pa-apers : A hundhred thousand armed an ' detarmined women invaded th ' capital city to-day demandin ' th ' right to vote . They chased th ' polis acrost th ' Pottymac , mobbed a newspaper that was agin th ' bill , an ' tarred an ' feathered Sinitor Glue , th ' leader iv th ' opposition . At 10 o'clock a rumor spread that th ' Prisident wud veto th ' bill , an ' instantly a huge crowd iv excited females gathered in front of the White House , hurlin ' rocks an ' cryin ' ` Lynch him ! ' Th ' tumult was on ' y quelled whin th ' Prisident 's wife appeared on th ' balcony an ' made a brief speech . She said she was a mimber iv th ' local suffrage club , an ' she felt safe in assuring her sisters that th ' bill wud be signed . If nicissry , she wud sign it hersilf . |
14684 | 12 | noon | true | 53 | 54 | A little moral suasion wud bring him ar-round all right . At prisint th ' Chief Magistrate was in th ' kitchen with his daughter settin ' on his head . '' ` Th ' speech was received with loud cheers , an ' th ' mob proceeded down Pinnslyvanya Avnoo . Be noon all enthrances to th ' capital were jammed . Congressmen attimptin ' to enter were seized be th ' hair iv th ' head an ' made to sign a pa-aper promisin ' to vote right . Immejately afther th ' prayer th ' Hon ` rable Clarence Gumdhrop iv Matsachoosetts offered th ' suffrage bill f ' r passage . ` Th ' motion is out iv ordher , ' began th ' Speaker . |
14684 | 9 | 9 o'clock | true | 114 | 116 | With tremblin ' fingers he affixed his signature an ' was led back . '' ` The night passed quietly . Th ' sthreets were crowded all avenin ' with good-natured throngs iv ladies , an ' in front iv th ' dry goods stores , which were illuminated f ' r th ' occasion , it was almost impossible to get through . Iv coorse there were th ' usual riochous scenes in th ' dhrug stores , where th ' bibulous gathered at th ' sody-wather counthers an ' cillybrated th ' victory in lemon , vanilla , an ' choc ` late , some iv thim keepin ' it up till 9 o'clock , or aven later . ' ` Whin that comes about , me child , ' says I , ` ye may sheathe ye'er hat pins in ye'er millinary , f ' r ye 'll have as much right to vote as th ' most ignorant man in th ' ward . But do n't ask f ' r rights . Take thim . |
14684 | 6 | six o'clock | true | 95 | 97 | Ye must get the childher ready f ' r a day in th ' counthry . We ca n't tell how soon this sthruggle again th ' greed iv capital will be declared off an ' we must make th ' most iv it while it lasts , ' says he . `` I know a tillygraft op ` rator , wan iv thim knights iv th ' key that has a fine job in a counthry deepo . All he has to do is to be up in time to flag number eight at six o'clock an ' wait till number thirty-two goes through at midnight , keep thrains fr 'm bumpin ' into each other , turn switches , put up th ' simaphore , clean th ' lamps an ' hand out time tables an ' sell tickets . F ' r these dissypations he dhraws down all th ' way fr 'm fifteen to twinty dollars a week . An ' he wants to sthrike . An ' th ' pa-apers say if he does he 'll tie up our impeeryal railroad systems . |
14684 | 4 | four o'clock | true | 70 | 72 | A farmer is continted with his ten-acre lot . There 's nawthin ' to take his mind off his wurruk . He sleeps at night with his nose against th ' shingled roof iv his little frame home an ' dhreams iv cinch bugs . While th ' stars are still alight he walks in his sleep to wake th ' cow that left th ' call f ' r four o'clock . Thin it 's ho ! f ' r feedin ' th ' pigs an ' mendin ' th ' reaper . Th ' sun arises as usual in th ' east an ' bein ' a keen student iv nature , he picks a cabbage leaf to put in his hat . |
14684 | 4 | four o'clock | true | 167 | 169 | ` Now , doctor , I will ask you a question . Supposin ' this pris ` ner to be a man with a whole lot iv money , an ' supposin ' he wint to this house on th ' night in question , an ' suppose it was snowin ' , an ' suppose it was n't , an ' suppose he turned fr 'm th ' right hand corner to th ' left goin ' upstairs , an ' supposin ' he wore a plug hat an ' a pair iv skates , an ' supposin ' th ' next day was Winsday -- ' ` I objict , ' says th ' State 's attorney . ` Th ' statues , with which me larned frind is no doubt familiar , though I be darned if he shows it , f ` rbids th ' mention iv th ' days iv th ' week . ' ` Scratch out Winsday an ' substichoot four o'clock in Janooary , ' says th ' coort . ` Now , how does th ' sentence r-read ? ' ` Th ' next day was four o'clock in Janooary -- an ' supposin ' th ' amount iv money , an ' supposin ' ye have n't got a very large salary holdin ' th ' chair iv conniption fits at th ' college , an ' supposin ' ye do n't get a cent onless ye answer r-right , I ask ye , on th ' night in question whin th ' pris ` ner grabbed th ' clock , was he or was he not funny at th ' roof ? ' ` I objict to th ' form iv question , ' says th ' State 's attorney . |
14684 | 4 | four o'clock | true | 75 | 77 | ` Th ' statues , with which me larned frind is no doubt familiar , though I be darned if he shows it , f ` rbids th ' mention iv th ' days iv th ' week . ' ` Scratch out Winsday an ' substichoot four o'clock in Janooary , ' says th ' coort . ` Now , how does th ' sentence r-read ? ' ` Th ' next day was four o'clock in Janooary -- an ' supposin ' th ' amount iv money , an ' supposin ' ye have n't got a very large salary holdin ' th ' chair iv conniption fits at th ' college , an ' supposin ' ye do n't get a cent onless ye answer r-right , I ask ye , on th ' night in question whin th ' pris ` ner grabbed th ' clock , was he or was he not funny at th ' roof ? ' ` I objict to th ' form iv question , ' says th ' State 's attorney . ` In th ' eighth sintince I move to sthrike out th ' wurrud and as unconstitutional , unprofissyonal , an ' conthry to th ' laws iv evidence . ' ` My Gawd , has my clint no rights in this coort ? ' |
14684 | 8 | eight o'clock | true | 32 | 34 | `` Ye may have seen me undherstudy , but ye did n't see me . Where was I ? It depinds on what time iv night it was . If it was eight o'clock , I was croosin ' in Pierpont Morgan 's yacht off th ' coast iv Labrador . We were both iv us settin ' up on th ' front stoop iv th ' boat . I had just won thirty millyon dollars fr 'm him throwin ' dice , an ' he remarked to me ` I bet it 's hot in Chicago . ' But about eight thirty , th ' wind , which had been blowin ' acrost th ' brick-yard , changed into th ' northeast an ' I moved back to Newpoort . '' |
14684 | 2 | two o'clock | true | 114 | 116 | How glad I am to know that Congress has adjourned afther rejoocin ' th ' tariff to a level where th ' poorest are within its reach . An ' how cud I be happy away fr 'm here if I did n't know how me frind Willum Taft was gettin ' on at goluf . Iv coorse I 'm inthrested in all that goes on at th ' summer capitol . I am glad to know that Charles played tennis fr 'm ten to iliven an ' aftherward took a throlley car ride to Lynn , where he bought a pair iv shoes an ' a piece iv blueberry pie , but at two o'clock had entirely recovered . But th ' rale inthrest is in th ' prisidint 's goluf . Me fav ` rite journal prints exthries about it . ` Specyal exthry ; six thirty . |
98 | 14 | about two in the afternoon | true | 75 | 80 | Mr. Lorry , the passenger , shaking himself out of it in chains of straw , a tangle of shaggy wrapper , flapping hat , and muddy legs , was rather like a larger sort of dog . `` There will be a packet to Calais , tomorrow , drawer ? '' `` Yes , sir , if the weather holds and the wind sets tolerable fair . The tide will serve pretty nicely at about two in the afternoon , sir . Bed , sir ? '' `` I shall not go to bed till night ; but I want a bedroom , and a barber . '' `` And then breakfast , sir ? |
98 | 9 | nine o'clock | true | 62 | 64 | I wo n't have my wittles blest off my table . Keep still ! '' Exceedingly red-eyed and grim , as if he had been up all night at a party which had taken anything but a convivial turn , Jerry Cruncher worried his breakfast rather than ate it , growling over it like any four-footed inmate of a menagerie . Towards nine o'clock he smoothed his ruffled aspect , and , presenting as respectable and business-like an exterior as he could overlay his natural self with , issued forth to the occupation of the day . It could scarcely be called a trade , in spite of his favourite description of himself as `` a honest tradesman . '' His stock consisted of a wooden stool , made out of a broken-backed chair cut down , which stool , young Jerry , walking at his father 's side , carried every morning to beneath the banking-house window that was nearest Temple Bar : where , with the addition of the first handful of straw that could be gleaned from any passing vehicle to keep the cold and wet from the odd-job-man 's feet , it formed the encampment for the day . On this post of his , Mr. Cruncher was as well known to Fleet-street and the Temple , as the Bar itself , -- and was almost as in-looking . |
98 | 8 | a quarter before nine | true | 138 | 142 | It could scarcely be called a trade , in spite of his favourite description of himself as `` a honest tradesman . '' His stock consisted of a wooden stool , made out of a broken-backed chair cut down , which stool , young Jerry , walking at his father 's side , carried every morning to beneath the banking-house window that was nearest Temple Bar : where , with the addition of the first handful of straw that could be gleaned from any passing vehicle to keep the cold and wet from the odd-job-man 's feet , it formed the encampment for the day . On this post of his , Mr. Cruncher was as well known to Fleet-street and the Temple , as the Bar itself , -- and was almost as in-looking . Encamped at a quarter before nine , in good time to touch his three-cornered hat to the oldest of men as they passed in to Tellson 's , Jerry took up his station on this windy March morning , with young Jerry standing by him , when not engaged in making forays through the Bar , to inflict bodily and mental injuries of an acute description on passing boys who were small enough for his amiable purpose . Father and son , extremely like each other , looking silently on at the morning traffic in Fleet-street , with their two heads as near to one another as the two eyes of each were , bore a considerable resemblance to a pair of monkeys . The resemblance was not lessened by the accidental circumstance , that the mature Jerry bit and spat out straw , while the twinkling eyes of the youthful Jerry were as restlessly watchful of him as of everything else in Fleet-street . The head of one of the regular indoor messengers attached to Tellson 's establishment was put through the door , and the word was given : `` Porter wanted ! '' |
98 | 0 | midnight | true | 56 | 57 | `` When ? '' `` I was returning from France a few days afterwards , and , at Calais , the prisoner came on board the packet-ship in which I returned , and made the voyage with me . '' `` At what hour did he come on board ? '' `` At a little after midnight . '' `` In the dead of the night . Was he the only passenger who came on board at that untimely hour ? '' `` He happened to be the only one . '' |
98 | 10 | Ten o'clock | true | 144 | 146 | What the two drank together , between Hilary Term and Michaelmas , might have floated a king 's ship . Stryver never had a case in hand , anywhere , but Carton was there , with his hands in his pockets , staring at the ceiling of the court ; they went the same Circuit , and even there they prolonged their usual orgies late into the night , and Carton was rumoured to be seen at broad day , going home stealthily and unsteadily to his lodgings , like a dissipated cat . At last , it began to get about , among such as were interested in the matter , that although Sydney Carton would never be a lion , he was an amazingly good jackal , and that he rendered suit and service to Stryver in that humble capacity . `` Ten o'clock , sir , '' said the man at the tavern , whom he had charged to wake him -- `` ten o'clock , sir . '' `` _ What 's _ the matter ? '' `` Ten o'clock , sir . '' `` What do you mean ? |
98 | 10 | Ten o'clock | true | 88 | 90 | At last , it began to get about , among such as were interested in the matter , that although Sydney Carton would never be a lion , he was an amazingly good jackal , and that he rendered suit and service to Stryver in that humble capacity . `` Ten o'clock , sir , '' said the man at the tavern , whom he had charged to wake him -- `` ten o'clock , sir . '' `` _ What 's _ the matter ? '' `` Ten o'clock , sir . '' `` What do you mean ? Ten o'clock at night ? '' `` Yes , sir . |
98 | 22 | Ten o'clock at night | true | 22 | 26 | `` _ What 's _ the matter ? '' `` Ten o'clock , sir . '' `` What do you mean ? Ten o'clock at night ? '' `` Yes , sir . Your honour told me to call you . '' `` Oh ! |
98 | 3 | three in the morning | true | 123 | 127 | At length the jackal had got together a compact repast for the lion , and proceeded to offer it to him . The lion took it with care and caution , made his selections from it , and his remarks upon it , and the jackal assisted both . When the repast was fully discussed , the lion put his hands in his waistband again , and lay down to meditate . The jackal then invigorated himself with a bumper for his throttle , and a fresh application to his head , and applied himself to the collection of a second meal ; this was administered to the lion in the same manner , and was not disposed of until the clocks struck three in the morning . `` And now we have done , Sydney , fill a bumper of punch , '' said Mr. Stryver . The jackal removed the towels from his head , which had been steaming again , shook himself , yawned , shivered , and complied . `` You were very sound , Sydney , in the matter of those crown witnesses to-day . |
98 | 0 | midnight | true | 86 | 87 | he added again , after a peal of thunder . `` Here they come , fast , fierce , and furious ! '' It was the rush and roar of rain that he typified , and it stopped him , for no voice could be heard in it . A memorable storm of thunder and lightning broke with that sweep of water , and there was not a moment 's interval in crash , and fire , and rain , until after the moon rose at midnight . The great bell of Saint Paul 's was striking one in the cleared air , when Mr. Lorry , escorted by Jerry , high-booted and bearing a lantern , set forth on his return-passage to Clerkenwell . There were solitary patches of road on the way between Soho and Clerkenwell , and Mr. Lorry , mindful of foot-pads , always retained Jerry for this service : though it was usually performed a good two hours earlier . `` What a night it has been ! |
98 | 5 | five o'clock in the morning | true | 24 | 29 | `` Guess . '' `` Do I know her ? '' `` Guess . '' `` I am not going to guess , at five o'clock in the morning , with my brains frying and sputtering in my head . If you want me to guess , you must ask me to dinner . '' `` Well then , I 'll tell you , '' said Stryver , coming slowly into a sitting posture . `` Sydney , I rather despair of making myself intelligible to you , because you are such an insensible dog . '' |
98 | 10 | ten o'clock | true | 100 | 102 | `` And now , '' said Mr. Stryver , shaking his forensic forefinger at the Temple in general , when it was down , `` my way out of this , is , to put you all in the wrong . '' It was a bit of the art of an Old Bailey tactician , in which he found great relief . `` You shall not put me in the wrong , young lady , '' said Mr. Stryver ; `` I 'll do that for you . '' Accordingly , when Mr. Lorry called that night as late as ten o'clock , Mr. Stryver , among a quantity of books and papers littered out for the purpose , seemed to have nothing less on his mind than the subject of the morning . He even showed surprise when he saw Mr. Lorry , and was altogether in an absent and preoccupied state . `` Well ! '' said that good-natured emissary , after a full half-hour of bootless attempts to bring him round to the question . |
98 | 1 | nearly one
o'clock | true | 127 | 130 | Do you call yourself a mother , and not know that a mother 's first duty is to blow her boy out ? '' This touched Young Jerry on a tender place ; who adjured his mother to perform her first duty , and , whatever else she did or neglected , above all things to lay especial stress on the discharge of that maternal function so affectingly and delicately indicated by his other parent . Thus the evening wore away with the Cruncher family , until Young Jerry was ordered to bed , and his mother , laid under similar injunctions , obeyed them . Mr. Cruncher beguiled the earlier watches of the night with solitary pipes , and did not start upon his excursion until nearly one o'clock . Towards that small and ghostly hour , he rose up from his chair , took a key out of his pocket , opened a locked cupboard , and brought forth a sack , a crowbar of convenient size , a rope and chain , and other fishing tackle of that nature . Disposing these articles about him in skilful manner , he bestowed a parting defiance on Mrs. Cruncher , extinguished the light , and went out . Young Jerry , who had only made a feint of undressing when he went to bed , was not long after his father . |
98 | 6 | six o'clock in the morning | true | 83 | 88 | As Young Jerry , thus encouraged , went on a few yards in advance , to plant the stool in the shadow of the Bar , Mr. Cruncher added to himself : `` Jerry , you honest tradesman , there 's hopes wot that boy will yet be a blessing to you , and a recompense to you for his mother ! '' XV . Knitting There had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine-shop of Monsieur Defarge . As early as six o'clock in the morning , sallow faces peeping through its barred windows had descried other faces within , bending over measures of wine . Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin wine at the best of times , but it would seem to have been an unusually thin wine that he sold at this time . A sour wine , moreover , or a souring , for its influence on the mood of those who drank it was to make them gloomy . No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of Monsieur Defarge : but , a smouldering fire that burnt in the dark , lay hidden in the dregs of it . |
98 | 12 | midday | true | 184 | 185 | He was not missed ; for , nobody who crossed the threshold looked for him , nobody asked for him , nobody wondered to see only Madame Defarge in her seat , presiding over the distribution of wine , with a bowl of battered small coins before her , as much defaced and beaten out of their original impress as the small coinage of humanity from whose ragged pockets they had come . A suspended interest and a prevalent absence of mind , were perhaps observed by the spies who looked in at the wine-shop , as they looked in at every place , high and low , from the king 's palace to the criminal 's gaol . Games at cards languished , players at dominoes musingly built towers with them , drinkers drew figures on the tables with spilt drops of wine , Madame Defarge herself picked out the pattern on her sleeve with her toothpick , and saw and heard something inaudible and invisible a long way off . Thus , Saint Antoine in this vinous feature of his , until midday . It was high noontide , when two dusty men passed through his streets and under his swinging lamps : of whom , one was Monsieur Defarge : the other a mender of roads in a blue cap . All adust and athirst , the two entered the wine-shop . Their arrival had lighted a kind of fire in the breast of Saint Antoine , fast spreading as they came along , which stirred and flickered in flames of faces at most doors and windows . |
98 | 12 | midday | true | 88 | 89 | Workmen dig , workmen hammer , soldiers laugh and sing ; in the morning , by the fountain , there is raised a gallows forty feet high , poisoning the water . '' The mender of roads looked _ through _ rather than _ at _ the low ceiling , and pointed as if he saw the gallows somewhere in the sky . `` All work is stopped , all assemble there , nobody leads the cows out , the cows are there with the rest . At midday , the roll of drums . Soldiers have marched into the prison in the night , and he is in the midst of many soldiers . He is bound as before , and in his mouth there is a gag -- tied so , with a tight string , making him look almost as if he laughed . '' He suggested it , by creasing his face with his two thumbs , from the corners of his mouth to his ears . |
98 | 0 | midnight | true | 32 | 33 | It is a portrait ! '' said madame , laughing . `` He shall be registered to-morrow . '' They turned into the wine-shop , which was closed -LRB- for it was midnight -RRB- , and where Madame Defarge immediately took her post at her desk , counted the small moneys that had been taken during her absence , examined the stock , went through the entries in the book , made other entries of her own , checked the serving man in every possible way , and finally dismissed him to bed . Then she turned out the contents of the bowl of money for the second time , and began knotting them up in her handkerchief , in a chain of separate knots , for safe keeping through the night . All this while , Defarge , with his pipe in his mouth , walked up and down , complacently admiring , but never interfering ; in which condition , indeed , as to the business and his domestic affairs , he walked up and down through life . The night was hot , and the shop , close shut and surrounded by so foul a neighbourhood , was ill-smelling . |
98 | 12 | noon | true | 241 | 242 | The change consisted in the appearance of strange faces of low caste , rather than in the disappearance of the high caste , chiselled , and otherwise beautified and beautifying features of Monseigneur . For , in these times , as the mender of roads worked , solitary , in the dust , not often troubling himself to reflect that dust he was and to dust he must return , being for the most part too much occupied in thinking how little he had for supper and how much more he would eat if he had it -- in these times , as he raised his eyes from his lonely labour , and viewed the prospect , he would see some rough figure approaching on foot , the like of which was once a rarity in those parts , but was now a frequent presence . As it advanced , the mender of roads would discern without surprise , that it was a shaggy-haired man , of almost barbarian aspect , tall , in wooden shoes that were clumsy even to the eyes of a mender of roads , grim , rough , swart , steeped in the mud and dust of many highways , dank with the marshy moisture of many low grounds , sprinkled with the thorns and leaves and moss of many byways through woods . Such a man came upon him , like a ghost , at noon in the July weather , as he sat on his heap of stones under a bank , taking such shelter as he could get from a shower of hail . The man looked at him , looked at the village in the hollow , at the mill , and at the prison on the crag . When he had identified these objects in what benighted mind he had , he said , in a dialect that was just intelligible : `` How goes it , Jacques ? '' `` All well , Jacques . '' |
98 | 0 | midnight | true | 156 | 157 | But , an affectionate glance at his wife , so happy and busy , made him resolute not to tell her what impended -LRB- he had been half moved to do it , so strange it was to him to act in anything without her quiet aid -RRB- , and the day passed quickly . Early in the evening he embraced her , and her scarcely less dear namesake , pretending that he would return by-and-bye -LRB- an imaginary engagement took him out , and he had secreted a valise of clothes ready -RRB- , and so he emerged into the heavy mist of the heavy streets , with a heavier heart . The unseen force was drawing him fast to itself , now , and all the tides and winds were setting straight and strong towards it . He left his two letters with a trusty porter , to be delivered half an hour before midnight , and no sooner ; took horse for Dover ; and began his journey . `` For the love of Heaven , of justice , of generosity , of the honour of your noble name ! '' was the poor prisoner 's cry with which he strengthened his sinking heart , as he left all that was dear on earth behind him , and floated away for the Loadstone Rock . The end of the second book . |
98 | 3 | three o'clock in the morning | true | 77 | 82 | `` It is always as the good patriot says , '' observed the functionary . `` Rise and dress yourself , emigrant . '' Darnay complied , and was taken back to the guard-house , where other patriots in rough red caps were smoking , drinking , and sleeping , by a watch-fire . Here he paid a heavy price for his escort , and hence he started with it on the wet , wet roads at three o'clock in the morning . The escort were two mounted patriots in red caps and tri-coloured cockades , armed with national muskets and sabres , who rode one on either side of him . The escorted governed his own horse , but a loose line was attached to his bridle , the end of which one of the patriots kept girded round his wrist . In this state they set forth with the sharp rain driving in their faces : clattering at a heavy dragoon trot over the uneven town pavement , and out upon the mire-deep roads . |
98 | 12 | Noon | true | 120 | 121 | His own possessions , safety , life , he would have hazarded for Lucie and her child , without a moment 's demur ; but the great trust he held was not his own , and as to that business charge he was a strict man of business . At first , his mind reverted to Defarge , and he thought of finding out the wine-shop again and taking counsel with its master in reference to the safest dwelling-place in the distracted state of the city . But , the same consideration that suggested him , repudiated him ; he lived in the most violent Quarter , and doubtless was influential there , and deep in its dangerous workings . Noon coming , and the Doctor not returning , and every minute 's delay tending to compromise Tellson 's , Mr. Lorry advised with Lucie . She said that her father had spoken of hiring a lodging for a short term , in that Quarter , near the Banking-house . As there was no business objection to this , and as he foresaw that even if it were all well with Charles , and he were to be released , he could not hope to leave the city , Mr. Lorry went out in quest of such a lodging , and found a suitable one , high up in a removed by-street where the closed blinds in all the other windows of a high melancholy square of buildings marked deserted homes . To this lodging he at once removed Lucie and her child , and Miss Pross : giving them what comfort he could , and much more than he had himself . |
98 | 15 | three in the afternoon | true | 140 | 144 | She lost her colour , and the old and intent expression was a constant , not an occasional , thing ; otherwise , she remained very pretty and comely . Sometimes , at night on kissing her father , she would burst into the grief she had repressed all day , and would say that her sole reliance , under Heaven , was on him . He always resolutely answered : `` Nothing can happen to him without my knowledge , and I know that I can save him , Lucie . '' They had not made the round of their changed life many weeks , when her father said to her , on coming home one evening : `` My dear , there is an upper window in the prison , to which Charles can sometimes gain access at three in the afternoon . When he can get to it -- which depends on many uncertainties and incidents -- he might see you in the street , he thinks , if you stood in a certain place that I can show you . But you will not be able to see him , my poor child , and even if you could , it would be unsafe for you to make a sign of recognition . '' `` O show me the place , my father , and I will go there every day . '' |
98 | 0 | Midnight | true | 48 | 49 | Mr. Cruncher , with some diffidence , explained himself as meaning `` Old Nick 's . '' `` Ha ! '' said Miss Pross , `` it does n't need an interpreter to explain the meaning of these creatures . They have but one , and it 's Midnight Murder , and Mischief . '' `` Hush , dear ! Pray , pray , be cautious ! '' cried Lucie . |
98 | 22 | ten o'clock at night | true | 49 | 53 | He had heard of her going to the prison every day . `` She came out here , '' he said , looking about him , `` turned this way , must have trod on these stones often . Let me follow in her steps . '' It was ten o'clock at night when he stood before the prison of La Force , where she had stood hundreds of times . A little wood-sawyer , having closed his shop , was smoking his pipe at his shop-door . `` Good night , citizen , '' said Sydney Carton , pausing in going by ; for , the man eyed him inquisitively . `` Good night , citizen . '' |
98 | 12 | twelve o'clock | true | 43 | 45 | `` ` I do not address her brother ? ' `` He answered with great contempt , ` No . ' `` ` She has some recent association with the number twelve ? ' `` The younger brother impatiently rejoined , ` With twelve o'clock ? ' `` ` See , gentlemen , ' said I , still keeping my hands upon her breast , ` how useless I am , as you have brought me ! If I had known what I was coming to see , I could have come provided . As it is , time must be lost . |
98 | 12 | noon | true | 37 | 38 | They kept him out in the unwholesome mists at night , and ordered him back into his harness in the day . But he was not persuaded . No ! Taken out of harness one day at noon , to feed -- if he could find food -- he sobbed twelve times , once for every stroke of the bell , and died on her bosom . ' `` Nothing human could have held life in the boy but his determination to tell all his wrong . He forced back the gathering shadows of death , as he forced his clenched right hand to remain clenched , and to cover his wound . `` ` Then , with that man 's permission and even with his aid , his brother took her away ; in spite of what I know she must have told his brother -- and what that is , will not be long unknown to you , Doctor , if it is now -- his brother took her away -- for his pleasure and diversion , for a little while . |
98 | 0 | midnight | true | 72 | 73 | As often as I caught the younger brother 's eyes , their expression reminded me that he disliked me deeply , for knowing what I knew from the boy . He was smoother and more polite to me than the elder ; but I saw this . I also saw that I was an incumbrance in the mind of the elder , too . `` My patient died , two hours before midnight -- at a time , by my watch , answering almost to the minute when I had first seen her . I was alone with her , when her forlorn young head drooped gently on one side , and all her earthly wrongs and sorrows ended . `` The brothers were waiting in a room down-stairs , impatient to ride away . I had heard them , alone at the bedside , striking their boots with their riding-whips , and loitering up and down . |
98 | 9 | nine o'clock | true | 67 | 69 | I never saw her more . `` As she had mentioned her husband 's name in the faith that I knew it , I added no mention of it to my letter . I sealed my letter , and , not trusting it out of my own hands , delivered it myself that day . `` That night , the last night of the year , towards nine o'clock , a man in a black dress rang at my gate , demanded to see me , and softly followed my servant , Ernest Defarge , a youth , up-stairs . When my servant came into the room where I sat with my wife -- O my wife , beloved of my heart ! My fair young English wife ! -- we saw the man , who was supposed to be at the gate , standing silent behind him . |
98 | 7 | seven o'clock | true | 85 | 87 | Having ascertained its situation , Carton came out of those closer streets again , and dined at a place of refreshment and fell sound asleep after dinner . For the first time in many years , he had no strong drink . Since last night he had taken nothing but a little light thin wine , and last night he had dropped the brandy slowly down on Mr. Lorry 's hearth like a man who had done with it . It was as late as seven o'clock when he awoke refreshed , and went out into the streets again . As he passed along towards Saint Antoine , he stopped at a shop-window where there was a mirror , and slightly altered the disordered arrangement of his loose cravat , and his coat-collar , and his wild hair . This done , he went on direct to Defarge 's , and went in . There happened to be no customer in the shop but Jacques Three , of the restless fingers and the croaking voice . |
98 | 4 | four o'clock | true | 94 | 96 | But , he went his way , and was soon swallowed up in the shadow of the prison wall . At the appointed hour , he emerged from it to present himself in Mr. Lorry 's room again , where he found the old gentleman walking to and fro in restless anxiety . He said he had been with Lucie until just now , and had only left her for a few minutes , to come and keep his appointment . Her father had not been seen , since he quitted the banking-house towards four o'clock . She had some faint hopes that his mediation might save Charles , but they were very slight . He had been more than five hours gone : where could he be ? Mr. Lorry waited until ten ; but , Doctor Manette not returning , and he being unwilling to leave Lucie any longer , it was arranged that he should go back to her , and come to the banking-house again at midnight . |
98 | 0 | midnight | true | 89 | 90 | Her father had not been seen , since he quitted the banking-house towards four o'clock . She had some faint hopes that his mediation might save Charles , but they were very slight . He had been more than five hours gone : where could he be ? Mr. Lorry waited until ten ; but , Doctor Manette not returning , and he being unwilling to leave Lucie any longer , it was arranged that he should go back to her , and come to the banking-house again at midnight . In the meanwhile , Carton would wait alone by the fire for the Doctor . He waited and waited , and the clock struck twelve ; but Doctor Manette did not come back . Mr. Lorry returned , and found no tidings of him , and brought none . |
98 | 14 | two o'clock in the
afternoon | true | 93 | 98 | `` So attentively , and with so much confidence in what you say , that for the moment I lose sight , '' touching the back of the Doctor 's chair , `` even of this distress . '' `` You have money , and can buy the means of travelling to the seacoast as quickly as the journey can be made . Your preparations have been completed for some days , to return to England . Early to-morrow have your horses ready , so that they may be in starting trim at two o'clock in the afternoon . '' `` It shall be done ! '' His manner was so fervent and inspiring , that Mr. Lorry caught the flame , and was as quick as youth . `` You are a noble heart . |
98 | 3 | three o'clock | true | 42 | 44 | The little citizen , not to be outdone , declared her to be a celestial witness . `` He must take his chance , '' said Madame Defarge . `` No , I can not spare him ! You are engaged at three o'clock ; you are going to see the batch of to-day executed . -- You ? '' The question was addressed to the wood-sawyer , who hurriedly replied in the affirmative : seizing the occasion to add that he was the most ardent of Republicans , and that he would be in effect the most desolate of Republicans , if anything prevented him from enjoying the pleasure of smoking his afternoon pipe in the contemplation of the droll national barber . He was so very demonstrative herein , that he might have been suspected -LRB- perhaps was , by the dark eyes that looked contemptuously at him out of Madame Defarge 's head -RRB- of having his small individual fears for his own personal safety , every hour in the day . |
98 | 3 | three o'clock | true | 175 | 177 | Thus accoutred , and walking with the confident tread of such a character , and with the supple freedom of a woman who had habitually walked in her girlhood , bare-foot and bare-legged , on the brown sea-sand , Madame Defarge took her way along the streets . Now , when the journey of the travelling coach , at that very moment waiting for the completion of its load , had been planned out last night , the difficulty of taking Miss Pross in it had much engaged Mr. Lorry 's attention . It was not merely desirable to avoid overloading the coach , but it was of the highest importance that the time occupied in examining it and its passengers , should be reduced to the utmost ; since their escape might depend on the saving of only a few seconds here and there . Finally , he had proposed , after anxious consideration , that Miss Pross and Jerry , who were at liberty to leave the city , should leave it at three o'clock in the lightest-wheeled conveyance known to that period . Unencumbered with luggage , they would soon overtake the coach , and , passing it and preceding it on the road , would order its horses in advance , and greatly facilitate its progress during the precious hours of the night , when delay was the most to be dreaded . Seeing in this arrangement the hope of rendering real service in that pressing emergency , Miss Pross hailed it with joy . She and Jerry had beheld the coach start , had known who it was that Solomon brought , had passed some ten minutes in tortures of suspense , and were now concluding their arrangements to follow the coach , even as Madame Defarge , taking her way through the streets , now drew nearer and nearer to the else-deserted lodging in which they held their consultation . |
98 | 3 | Three o'Clock | true | 62 | 64 | `` I am doubtful , '' said Mr. Cruncher , hesitating and shaking his head , `` about leaving of you , you see . We do n't know what may happen . '' `` Heaven knows we do n't , '' returned Miss Pross , `` but have no fear for me . Take me in at the cathedral , at Three o'Clock , or as near it as you can , and I am sure it will be better than our going from here . I feel certain of it . There ! Bless you , Mr. Cruncher ! |
98 | 2 | twenty
minutes past two | true | 80 | 84 | With an encouraging nod or two , he immediately went out to alter the arrangements , and left her by herself to follow as she had proposed . The having originated a precaution which was already in course of execution , was a great relief to Miss Pross . The necessity of composing her appearance so that it should attract no special notice in the streets , was another relief . She looked at her watch , and it was twenty minutes past two . She had no time to lose , but must get ready at once . Afraid , in her extreme perturbation , of the loneliness of the deserted rooms , and of half-imagined faces peeping from behind every open door in them , Miss Pross got a basin of cold water and began laving her eyes , which were swollen and red . Haunted by her feverish apprehensions , she could not bear to have her sight obscured for a minute at a time by the dripping water , but constantly paused and looked round to see that there was no one watching her . |
91 | 4 | about four o'clock | true | 101 | 104 | Well , I got my wish . It drizzled and drizzled along the rest of the night , which was n't long , though it did seem so ; and at daybreak it cleared , and the world looked mighty soft and gray and pretty , and the forests and fields so good to see again , and the horses and cattle standing sober and thinking . Next , the sun come a-blazing up gay and splendid , and then we began to feel rusty and stretchy , and first we knowed we was all asleep . WE went to sleep about four o'clock , and woke up about eight . The professor was setting back there at his end , looking glum . He pitched us some breakfast , but he told us not to come abaft the midship compass . That was about the middle of the boat . |
91 | 8 | eight o'clock | true | 46 | 48 | No ! It 's four minutes difference for every degree of longitude , you know . Fifteen of 'em 's an hour , thirty of 'em 's two hours , and so on . When it 's one clock Tuesday morning in England , it 's eight o'clock the night before in New York . '' Jim moved a little way along the locker , and you could see he was insulted . He kept shaking his head and muttering , and so I slid along to him and patted him on the leg , and petted him up , and got him over the worst of his feelings , and then he says : `` Mars Tom talkin ' sich talk as dat ! Choosday in one place en Monday in t ` other , bofe in the same day ! |
91 | 0 | About midnight | true | 106 | 108 | There was plenty of clothes and blankets and everything at the other end , but we thought we 'd ruther take the rain than go meddling back there . WE tried to make some plans , but we could n't come to no agreement . Me and Jim was for turning around and going back home , but Tom allowed that by the time daylight come , so we could see our way , we would be so far toward England that we might as well go there , and come back in a ship , and have the glory of saying we done it . About midnight the storm quit and the moon come out and lit up the ocean , and we begun to feel comfortable and drowsy ; so we stretched out on the lockers and went to sleep , and never woke up again till sun-up . The sea was sparkling like di ` monds , and it was nice weather , and pretty soon our things was all dry again . We went aft to find some breakfast , and the first thing we noticed was that there was a dim light burning in a compass back there under a hood . Then Tom was disturbed . |
91 | 0 | midnight | true | 76 | 77 | But we could n't see nothing but ocean . The afternoon wasted out and the sun shut down , and still there war n't no land anywheres . We wondered what was the matter , but reckoned it would come out all right , so we went on steering east , but went up on a higher level so we would n't hit any steeples or mountains in the dark . It was my watch till midnight , and then it was Jim 's ; but Tom stayed up , because he said ship captains done that when they was making the land , and did n't stand no regular watch . Well , when daylight come , Jim give a shout , and we jumped up and looked over , and there was the land sure enough -- land all around , as far as you could see , and perfectly level and yaller . We did n't know how long we 'd been over it . There war n't no trees , nor hills , nor rocks , nor towns , and Tom and Jim had took it for the sea . |
91 | 16 | four in the
afternoon | true | 41 | 45 | They 're chronometers . You always read about them in sea voyages . One of them is keeping Grinnage time , and the other is keeping St. Louis time , like my watch . When we left St. Louis it was four in the afternoon by my watch and this clock , and it was ten at night by this Grinnage clock . Well , at this time of the year the sun sets at about seven o'clock . Now I noticed the time yesterday evening when the sun went down , and it was half-past five o'clock by the Grinnage clock , and half past 11 A.M. by my watch and the other clock . You see , the sun rose and set by my watch in St. Louis , and the Grinnage clock was six hours fast ; but we 've come so far east that it comes within less than half an hour of setting by the Grinnage clock now , and I 'm away out -- more than four hours and a half out . |
91 | 7 | about
seven o'clock | true | 71 | 74 | You always read about them in sea voyages . One of them is keeping Grinnage time , and the other is keeping St. Louis time , like my watch . When we left St. Louis it was four in the afternoon by my watch and this clock , and it was ten at night by this Grinnage clock . Well , at this time of the year the sun sets at about seven o'clock . Now I noticed the time yesterday evening when the sun went down , and it was half-past five o'clock by the Grinnage clock , and half past 11 A.M. by my watch and the other clock . You see , the sun rose and set by my watch in St. Louis , and the Grinnage clock was six hours fast ; but we 've come so far east that it comes within less than half an hour of setting by the Grinnage clock now , and I 'm away out -- more than four hours and a half out . You see , that meant that we was closing up on the longitude of Ireland , and would strike it before long if we was p ` inted right -- which we was n't . |
91 | 5 | five o'clock | true | 83 | 85 | One of them is keeping Grinnage time , and the other is keeping St. Louis time , like my watch . When we left St. Louis it was four in the afternoon by my watch and this clock , and it was ten at night by this Grinnage clock . Well , at this time of the year the sun sets at about seven o'clock . Now I noticed the time yesterday evening when the sun went down , and it was half-past five o'clock by the Grinnage clock , and half past 11 A.M. by my watch and the other clock . You see , the sun rose and set by my watch in St. Louis , and the Grinnage clock was six hours fast ; but we 've come so far east that it comes within less than half an hour of setting by the Grinnage clock now , and I 'm away out -- more than four hours and a half out . You see , that meant that we was closing up on the longitude of Ireland , and would strike it before long if we was p ` inted right -- which we was n't . No , sir , we 've been a-wandering -- wandering ` way down south of east , and it 's my opinion we are in Africa . |
91 | 12 | noon | true | 44 | 45 | Look at this map . You see how the shoulder of Africa sticks out to the west . Think how fast we 've traveled ; if we had gone straight east we would be long past England by this time . You watch for noon , all of you , and we 'll stand up , and when we ca n't cast a shadow we 'll find that this Grinnage clock is coming mighty close to marking twelve . Yes , sir , I think we 're in Africa ; and it 's just bully . '' Jim was gazing down with the glass . He shook his head and says : `` Mars Tom , I reckon dey 's a mistake som ` er 's , hai n't seen no niggers yit . '' |
91 | 12 | NOON | true | 245 | 246 | We thought we 'd chance it , and we did . We swooped down and stopped , and Jim shinned down the ladder and fetched up the kid , which was a nice fat little thing , and in a noble good humor , too , considering it was just out of a battle and been tumbled off of a horse ; and then we started for the mother , and stopped back of her and tolerable near by , and Jim slipped down and crept up easy , and when he was close back of her the child goo-goo 'd , the way a child does , and she heard it , and whirled and fetched a shriek of joy , and made a jump for the kid and snatched it and hugged it , and dropped it and hugged Jim , and then snatched off a gold chain and hung it around Jim 's neck , and hugged him again , and jerked up the child again , a-sobbing and glorifying all the time ; and Jim he shoved for the ladder and up it , and in a minute we was back up in the sky and the woman was staring up , with the back of her head between her shoulders and the child with its arms locked around her neck . And there she stood , as long as we was in sight a-sailing away in the sky . `` NOON ! '' says Tom , and so it was . His shadder was just a blot around his feet . We looked , and the Grinnage clock was so close to twelve the difference did n't amount to nothing . |
91 | 13 | 10 minutes to 2 P.M. | true | 90 | 95 | Come , now , hustle out some blankets and food and books and things for me and Huck , and you can start right along . There ai n't no occasion to fool around -- I want a smoke , and the quicker you fetch that pipe the better . '' All hands jumped for the things , and in eight minutes our things was out and the balloon was ready for America . So we shook hands good-bye , and Tom gave his last orders : `` It 's 10 minutes to 2 P.M. now , Mount Sinai time . In 24 hours you 'll be home , and it 'll be 6 to-morrow morning , village time . When you strike the village , land a little back of the top of the hill , in the woods , out of sight ; then you rush down , Jim , and shove these letters in the post-office , and if you see anybody stirring , pull your slouch down over your face so they wo n't know you . Then you go and slip in the back way to the kitchen and git the pipe , and lay this piece of paper on the kitchen table , and put something on it to hold it , and then slide out and git away , and do n't let Aunt Polly catch a sight of you , nor nobody else . |
91 | 8 | 8 A.M. | true | 95 | 97 | Then you go and slip in the back way to the kitchen and git the pipe , and lay this piece of paper on the kitchen table , and put something on it to hold it , and then slide out and git away , and do n't let Aunt Polly catch a sight of you , nor nobody else . Then you jump for the balloon and shove for Mount Sinai three hundred miles an hour . You wo n't have lost more than an hour . You 'll start back at 7 or 8 A.M. , village time , and be here in 24 hours , arriving at 2 or 3 P.M. , Mount Sinai time . '' Tom he read the piece of paper to us . He had wrote on it : `` THURSDAY AFTERNOON . Tom Sawyer the Erro-nort sends his love to Aunt Polly from Mount Sinai where the Ark was , and so does Huck Finn , and she will get it to-morrow morning half-past six . '' |
90 | 9 | about half after nine | true | 133 | 137 | `` Yes , sir , '' replied the boy ; and then : `` I shall tell you , sir , when I have been to see Ajax . '' Mr. Moore 's room was next to that of his youthful charge , and it was the tutor 's custom to have a look into the boy 's each evening as the former was about to retire . This evening he was particularly careful not to neglect his duty , for he had just come from a conference with the boy 's father and mother in which it had been impressed upon him that he must exercise the greatest care to prevent Jack visiting the music hall where Ajax was being shown . So , when he opened the boy 's door at about half after nine , he was greatly excited , though not entirely surprised to find the future Lord Greystoke fully dressed for the street and about to crawl from his open bed room window . Mr. Moore made a rapid spring across the apartment ; but the waste of energy was unnecessary , for when the boy heard him within the chamber and realized that he had been discovered he turned back as though to relinquish his planned adventure . `` Where were you going ? '' panted the excited Mr. Moore . |
90 | 0 | midnight | true | 53 | 54 | He fell to the lure of the shining metal , for he had lived upon the coast and knew the power of gold . He promised to bring them what they craved , late that night . Immediately after dark the two white men commenced to make arrangements to break camp . By midnight all was prepared . The porters lay beside their loads , ready to swing them aloft at a moment 's notice . The armed askaris loitered between the balance of the safari and the Arab village , ready to form a rear guard for the retreat that was to begin the moment that the head man brought that which the white masters awaited . Presently there came the sound of footsteps along the path from the village . |
90 | 9 | nine o'clock before | true | 59 | 62 | As a matter of fact the thought of that lonely ride through the darkness before the sun rose had been too much for his courage , and he craved company . A black , therefore , preceded him on foot . Behind and above him came Korak , whom the noise in the camp had awakened . It was nine o'clock before Baynes drew rein in the clearing . Meriem had not yet arrived . The black lay down to rest . Baynes lolled in his saddle . |
90 | 9 | nine
o'clock before | true | 33 | 36 | It was already dark when they arrived . Leaving the boy there Hanson rode to the edge of the plain , leading the boy 's horse . There he waited . It was nine o'clock before he saw a solitary figure galloping toward him from the direction of the bungalow . A few moments later Meriem drew in her mount beside him . She was nervous and flushed . When she recognized Hanson she drew back , startled . |
90 | 12 | noon | true | 48 | 49 | `` Yes , '' he said , nervously , `` we must get away from here at once . Do you know the trail to the north ? '' The head-man did , and he lost no time in getting the safari upon the march . It was noon when a tired and sweat-covered runner overtook the trudging little column . The man was greeted with shouts of welcome from his fellows , to whom he imparted all that he knew and guessed of the actions of their master , so that the entire safari was aware of matters before Baynes , who marched close to the head of the column , was reached and acquainted with the facts and the imaginings of the black boy whom Malbihn had deserted in the clearing the night before . When the Hon. Morison had listened to all that the boy had to say and realized that the trader had used him as a tool whereby he himself might get Meriem into his possession , his blood ran hot with rage and he trembled with apprehension for the girl 's safety . That another contemplated no worse a deed than he had contemplated in no way palliated the hideousness of the other 's offense . |
93 | 0 | midnight | true | 83 | 84 | We had to set up and watch one another . Pity , that was ; pity to put that kind of a strain on us , because there was bad blood between us from a couple of weeks back , and we was only friends in the way of business . Bad anyway , seeing there was only two di ` monds betwixt three men . First we had supper , and then tramped up and down the deck together smoking till most midnight ; then we went and set down in my stateroom and locked the doors and looked in the piece of paper to see if the di ` monds was all right , then laid it on the lower berth right in full sight ; and there we set , and set , and by-and-by it got to be dreadful hard to keep awake . At last Bud Dixon he dropped off . As soon as he was snoring a good regular gait that was likely to last , and had his chin on his breast and looked permanent , Hal Clayton nodded towards the di ` monds and then towards the outside door , and I understood . I reached and got the paper , and then we stood up and waited perfectly still ; Bud never stirred ; I turned the key of the outside door very soft and slow , then turned the knob the same way , and we went tiptoeing out onto the guard , and shut the door very soft and gentle . |
93 | 3 | about three in the morning | true | 58 | 63 | When he got abreast he stopped and waited a little for me to come out ; then he rode on again . But I did n't feel gay any more . I says to myself I 've botched my chances by that ; I surely have , if he meets up with Hal Clayton . `` Well , about three in the morning I fetched Elexandria and see this stern-wheeler laying there , and was very glad , because I felt perfectly safe , now , you know . It was just daybreak . I went aboard and got this stateroom and put on these clothes and went up in the pilot-house -- to watch , though I did n't reckon there was any need of it . I set there and played with my di ` monds and waited and waited for the boat to start , but she did n't . |
93 | 12 | noon | true | 100 | 101 | I went aboard and got this stateroom and put on these clothes and went up in the pilot-house -- to watch , though I did n't reckon there was any need of it . I set there and played with my di ` monds and waited and waited for the boat to start , but she did n't . You see , they was mending her machinery , but I did n't know anything about it , not being very much used to steamboats . `` Well , to cut the tale short , we never left there till plumb noon ; and long before that I was hid in this stateroom ; for before breakfast I see a man coming , away off , that had a gait like Hal Clayton 's , and it made me just sick . I says to myself , if he finds out I 'm aboard this boat , he 's got me like a rat in a trap . All he 's got to do is to have me watched , and wait -- wait till I slip ashore , thinking he is a thousand miles away , then slip after me and dog me to a good place and make me give up the di ` monds , and then he 'll -- oh , I know what he 'll do ! Ai n't it awful -- awful ! |
93 | 13 | one at night | true | 80 | 83 | He said it was a whole fortune and he could n't bear the idea . Twice we stopped to fix the machinery and laid a good while , once in the night ; but it was n't dark enough , and he was afeard to skip . But the third time we had to fix it there was a better chance . We laid up at a country woodyard about forty mile above Uncle Silas 's place a little after one at night , and it was thickening up and going to storm . So Jake he laid for a chance to slide . We begun to take in wood . Pretty soon the rain come a-drenching down , and the wind blowed hard . |
93 | 0 | midnight | true | 67 | 68 | `` Yes , it was Jubiter Dunlap . Not dead , you see . Then they pulled off the dead man 's boots and put Jubiter Dunlap 's old ragged shoes on the corpse and put the corpse 's boots on Jubiter Dunlap . Then Jubiter Dunlap stayed where he was , and the other man lugged the dead body off in the twilight ; and after midnight he went to Uncle Silas 's house , and took his old green work-robe off of the peg where it always hangs in the passage betwixt the house and the kitchen and put it on , and stole the long-handled shovel and went off down into the tobacker field and buried the murdered man . '' He stopped , and stood half a minute . Then -- `` And who do you reckon the murdered man WAS ? It was -- JAKE Dunlap , the long-lost burglar ! '' |
92 | 12 | midday | true | 97 | 98 | The ape-man was disappointed -- possibly not so much because of the loss of the colored pebbles as with Numa for robbing him of the pleasures of revenge . Wondering what could have become of his possessions , the ape-man turned slowly back along the trail in the direction from which he had come . In his mind he revolved a plan to enter and search the Arab camp , after darkness had again fallen . Taking to the trees , he moved directly south in search of prey , that he might satisfy his hunger before midday , and then lie up for the afternoon in some spot far from the camp , where he might sleep without fear of discovery until it came time to prosecute his design . Scarcely had he quitted the trail when a tall , black warrior , moving at a dogged trot , passed toward the east . It was Mugambi , searching for his mistress . He continued along the trail , halting to examine the body of the dead lion . |
92 | 12 | noon | true | 132 | 133 | Mugambi shook his head , and continued along the trail , but with redoubled caution . All day he traveled , stopping occasionally to call aloud the single word , `` Lady , '' in the hope that at last she might hear and respond ; but in the end his loyal devotion brought him to disaster . From the northeast , for several months , Abdul Mourak , in command of a detachment of Abyssinian soldiers , had been assiduously searching for the Arab raider , Achmet Zek , who , six months previously , had affronted the majesty of Abdul Mourak 's emperor by conducting a slave raid within the boundaries of Menelek 's domain . And now it happened that Abdul Mourak had halted for a short rest at noon upon this very day and along the same trail that Werper and Mugambi were following toward the east . It was shortly after the soldiers had dismounted that the Belgian , unaware of their presence , rode his tired mount almost into their midst , before he had discovered them . Instantly he was surrounded , and a volley of questions hurled at him , as he was pulled from his horse and led toward the presence of the commander . Falling back upon his European nationality , Werper assured Abdul Mourak that he was a Frenchman , hunting in Africa , and that he had been attacked by strangers , his safari killed or scattered , and himself escaping only by a miracle . |