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[Stuart N. Clarke]

“The clock of New Saint Pancras Church struck twelve, and the Foundling, with laudable politeness, did the same ten minutes afterwards, Saint something else struck the quarter ...”
(“The [Bloomsbury] Boarding-house”, ch. 2 (Aug 1834), in “Sketches by Boz”)


“... the direct downright sound of Big Ben striking the half-hour. (The leaden circles dissolved in the air.) ... 
... the last tremors of the great booming voice shook the air round him; the half-hour; still early; only half-past eleven still ...
...
Ah, said St. Margaret's, like a hostess who comes into her drawing-room on the very stroke of the hour and finds her guests there already. I am not late. No, it is precisely half-past eleven, she says.”
(“Mrs. Dalloway)


Stuart (Day 193)
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