Eleven
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Do don't even seem surprised that the lawyer, despite being ill, still receives you at
eleven
o'clock at night.
K. now considered whether he should leave as quickly as possible, if he did not do it now there would be no chance of doing so during the sermon and he would have to stay there for as long as it lasted, he had lost so much time when he should have been in his office, there had long been no need for him to wait for the Italian any longer, he looked at his watch, it was
eleven.
The idea of a sermon, now, at
eleven
o'clock, on a workday, in hideous weather, was nonsense.
We got to Waterloo at eleven, and asked where the eleven-five started from.
We met a goodish number of men we knew about the town, and in their pleasant company the time slipped by somewhat quickly; so that it was nearly
eleven
o'clock before we set off on our four-mile walk home - as we had learned to call our little craft by this time.
WE came in sight of Reading about
eleven.
Montmorency had
eleven
fights on the first day, and fourteen on the second, and evidently thought he had got to heaven.
You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's a spunk-water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say:'Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,'and then walk away quick,
eleven
steps, with your eyes shut, and then turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody.
At last he was satisfied that time had ceased and eternity begun; he began to doze, in spite of himself; the clock chimed eleven, but he did not hear it.
Morning came, eventually, and by ten or
eleven
o'clock a giddy and rollicking company were gathered at Judge Thatcher's, and everything was ready for a start.
Eleven
o'clock came, and the tavern lights were put out; darkness everywhere, now.
It was nine miles as the crow flies, and
eleven
and a half by road, from Berwick to West Inch, and my heart grew heavy at the weary distance that separated me from my mother; for, mark you, a lad of that age pretends that he has no need of his mother's caresses, but ah, how sad he is when he is taken at his word!
I was twelve at the time (it was in the holidays) and she eleven, a thin, tallish girl with black eyes and the queerest ways.
It was my happiness hitherto that I had not discovered myself or my circumstances at all--no, not so much as my name; and seeing these was nothing to be expected from him, however good-humoured and however honest he seemed to be, but to live on what I knew would soon be wasted, I resolved to conceal everything but the bank bill and the
eleven
guineas which I had owned; and I would have been very glad to have lost that and have been set down where he took me up.
He rose before me in the morning; and indeed, having lain awake almost all night, I was very sleepy, and lay till near
eleven
o'clock.
I got safe to my lodgings with this cargo, which was a piece of fine black lustring silk, and a piece of velvet; the latter was but part of a piece of about
eleven
yards; the former was a whole piece of near fifty yards.
But she cried, and took on like a distracted body, wringing her hands, and crying out that she was undone, that she believed there was a curse from heaven upon her, that she should be damned, that she had been the destruction of all her friends, that she had brought such a one, and such a one, and such a one to the gallows; and there she reckoned up ten or
eleven
people, some of which I have given account of, that came to untimely ends; and that now she was the occasion of my ruin, for she had persuaded me to go on, when I would have left off.
They did not retire to rest until
eleven
o'clock at night.
And, until
eleven
o'clock, she remained oppressed in her chair, watching Francois whom she held in her arms, so as to avoid seeing the cardboard dolls grimacing around her.VOne Thursday, Camille, on returning from his office, brought with him a great fellow with square shoulders, whom he pushed in a familiar manner into the shop.
She remained seated on her chair until
eleven
o'clock, playing and talking, avoiding the eyes of Laurent, who for that matter did not trouble himself about her.
Therese returned home at
eleven
o'clock, with a burning head, and her thoughts strained, reaching the Arcade of the Pont Neuf unconscious of the road she had taken.
Therese engaged more willingly, almost with joy, in these excursions which kept her in the open air until ten or
eleven
o'clock at night.
One Sunday, Camille, Therese and Laurent left for Saint-Ouen after breakfast, at about
eleven
o'clock.
Her armchair was advanced to the table, and from eight o'clock till
eleven
she kept her eyes open, casting penetrating glances from one to another of her guests in turn.
It was prolonged until half-past eleven, and as Grivet withdrew, he declared that he had never passed such a pleasant time.
When half-past
eleven
struck, the guests quickly rose to their feet.
"Then still worse awaits you," said Don Quixote, "if you do not satisfy me as to all I asked you at first.""You shall be soon satisfied," said the licentiate; "you must know, then, that though just now I said I was a licentiate, I am only a bachelor, and my name is Alonzo Lopez; I am a native of Alcobendas, I come from the city of Baeza with
eleven
others, priests, the same who fled with the torches, and we are going to the city of Segovia accompanying a dead body which is in that litter, and is that of a gentleman who died in Baeza, where he was interred; and now, as I said, we are taking his bones to their burial-place, which is in Segovia, where he was born."
And then it occurred to him how he might make one, and that was by tearing a great strip off the tail of his shirt which hung down, and making
eleven
knots on it, one bigger than the rest, and this served him for a rosary all the time he was there, during which he repeated countless ave-marias.
To which senor astrologer, after having set up his figure, made answer that the bitch would be in pup, and would drop three pups, one green, another bright red, and the third parti-coloured, provided she conceived between
eleven
and twelve either of the day or night, and on a Monday or Saturday; but as things turned out, two days after this the bitch died of a surfeit, and senor planet-ruler had the credit all over the place of being a most profound astrologer, as most of these planet-rulers have."
When
eleven
o'clock came, Don Quixote found a guitar in his chamber; he tried it, opened the window, and perceived that some persons were walking in the garden; and having passed his fingers over the frets of the guitar and tuned it as well as he could, he spat and cleared his chest, and then with a voice a little hoarse but full-toned, he sang the following ballad, which he had himself that day composed:Mighty Love the hearts of maidensDoth unsettle and perplex,And the instrument he usesMost of all is idleness.
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