Miller, Olive Beaupré, ed, Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945, illustrator · Chicago : The Bookhouse for children · leaf 256
ones first, and afterward those near the river. These werefollowed by the two clocks on the bridge, the one at the countryend waiting until it was quite sure that the one at the town endhad finished. Somewhat later would be heard the clock ofVougereau, an old country-house in the suburbs. The very… … Her clock was in a little white tower at the comer of her house,and was the only strictly private clock which was in the habit ofmaking itself publicly heard. Long after every other clock hadstruck, and when there was every reason to believe that for sometime nothing but half-hours would be heard…
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