![]() "Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays " ![]() It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed an believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind. I'm begun on the first stroke and finished on the last when my father rolls off my mother and is plunged into a dreamless sleep, thanks to the five pints of bitter he has drunk in the Punchbowl with his friends, Walter and Bernard Belling. The clock once belonged to my great-grandmother (a woman called Alice) and its tired chime counts me into the world. I am conceived to the chimes of midnight on the clock on the mantelpiece in the room across the hall. "As midnight was striking bronze blows upon the dusky air, Dorian Gray, dressed commonly, and with a muffler wrapped round his throat, crept quietly out of his house." Linton: you knew it a while since.' 'Myself!' she gasped, 'and the clock is striking twelve! It's true, then! that's dreadful!'įrancisco. I took her hand in mine, and bid her be composed for a succession of shudders convulsed her frame, and she would keep straining her gaze towards the glass. ![]() :We had a midnight lunch too after all the jollification and when we sallied forth it was blue o'clock the morning after the night before" that indicate it's around 0000h., the switching hour.Ĭartridges not allowed after 0000h., to encourage sleep. Marcel can hear the horns and raised voices and U-turn squeals way down below on Wash. It is midnight some one has turned out the gas the last servant has gone to bed, and he must lie all night in agony with no one to bring him any help. The ray of light beneath his door is extinguished. ![]() He is certain he heard footsteps: they come nearer, and then die away. ![]()
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