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His trouble is that you can set a clock by his punctual rounds, and that one of his deliveries coincides with the arrival of the armored car at the bank next door.
And after all, he had no wish at all to humiliate himself before the committee by being too punctual.
CHAPTER II THE FIRST DAY'S JOURNEY, AND THE FIRST EVENING'S ADVENTURES; WITH THEIR CONSEQUENCESThat punctual servant of all work, the sun, had just risen, and begun to strike a light on the morning of the thirteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, when Mr. Samuel Pickwick burst like another sun from his slumbers, threw open his chamber window, and looked out upon the world beneath.
You see that green hill there?''Certainly.''That's the place where we are to lunch; and, by Jove, there's the boy with the basket, punctual as clockwork!''So he is,' said Mr. Pickwick, brightening up.
The coach was punctual to the time appointed; and Mr. Weller, after duly installing Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Winkle inside, took his seat on the box by the driver.
See about it, Sam, and tell them to be punctual.'
Mr. Harris was punctual in his second visit;--but he came to be disappointed in his hopes of what the last would produce.
He was, then, as punctual as the Samaritan woman, and the most rigorous casuist with regard to duels could have nothing to say.
Our clients were punctual to their appointment, for the clock had just struck ten when Dr. Mortimer was shown up, followed by the young baronet.
CHAPTER XIII--LORD NELSONMy father's appointment with Lord Nelson was an early one, and he was the more anxious to be punctual as he knew how much the Admiral's movements must be affected by the news which we had heard the night before.
Mr. Collins was punctual to his time, and was received with great politeness by the whole family.
Darcy was punctual in his return, and as Lydia informed you, attended the wedding.
Bingley was punctual to his appointment; and he and Mr. Bennet spent the morning together, as had been agreed on.
And how is Mr. Fogg?""As well and as punctual as ever, not a day behind time!
This is all very provoking to Miss Scatcherd, who is naturally neat, punctual, and particular."
Her own fortune she had taken care to secure; and when her mother died--and it was wholly improbable, she tranquilly remarked, that she should either recover or linger long--she would execute a long-cherished project: seek a retirement where punctual habits would be permanently secured from disturbance, and place safe barriers between herself and a frivolous world.
It was a wet and windy afternoon: Georgiana had fallen asleep on the sofa over the perusal of a novel; Eliza was gone to attend a saint's-day service at the new church--for in matters of religion she was a rigid formalist: no weather ever prevented the punctual discharge of what she considered her devotional duties; fair or foul, she went to church thrice every Sunday, and as often on week-days as there were prayers.
I wondered what it meant: I wondered, too, at the punctual satisfaction he never failed to exhibit on an occasion that seemed to me of small moment, namely, my weekly visit to Morton school; and still more was I puzzled when, if the day was unfavourable, if there was snow, or rain, or high wind, and his sisters urged me not to go, he would invariably make light of their solicitude, and encourage me to accomplish the task without regard to the elements.
They were never wont to be so punctual.