An unknown clock from an unknown tower (Jean Baptiste's voice was now too distant to be audible) was tolling the third quarter past five, when I reached that street and house whereof Madame Beck had given me the address.
So that when good Mr Glegg, restored to good humour by much hoeing, and moved by the sight of his wife's empty chair, with her knitting rolled up in the corner, went up-stairs to her, and observed that the bell had been tolling for poor Mr Morton, Mrs Glegg answered magnanimously, quite as if she had been an uninjured woman: "Ah!
Later, somewhere in the distance, like a tolling bell, I heard his words: "Lael, should we do this every Saturday?
Stories as to how it received its famous crack vary; one tells that it occurred while tolling the funeral of Chief Justice Marshall in 1835.
The bells of the little town were tolling for church.
"The bodies are carried away by night, with no tolling bell; the half dead in the streets are taken with them.
Then the dead were carried to the grave with the sound of solemn music, and the tolling of the church bells.
"We are not tolling for little Kay; we do not know him.
Two of the sisters stood up in the tower tolling the bell; they were both young, and therefore their glances flew over the mountain out into the world.
