Then, between that and the
midday meal, were drinks numerous enough to develop a pleasant jingle.
To-day, however, is the thirty-first of May, and he has not been yet, and to-morrow, at
midday, the payment falls due; if, therefore, I don't pay to-morrow, those gentlemen can, by the terms of the contract, break off the bargain; I shall be stripped of everything; I shall have worked for three years, and given two hundred and fifty thousand francs for nothing, absolutely for nothing at all, dear M.
Long before
midday they slackened speed, after crossing Battersea Bridge, and the two cars drew alongside.
Since three hours were consumed by making camp at night and cooking beans, by getting breakfast in the morning and breaking camp, and by thawing beans at the
midday halt, nine hours were left for sleep and recuperation, and neither men nor dogs wasted many minutes of those nine hours.
"At
midday to-morrow I shall be pleased to receive you," he said.
While I was having my
midday dinner at the hotel, I met one of the old lawyers who was still in practice, and he took me up to his office and talked over the Cutter case with me.
At
midday the father turned to his small son and said,
They could not have heard us, and the next morning when the drizzle cleared,-- which was not until past
midday,--we could see nothing of them.
At
midday the Russian baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge.
It seemed as if I had hardly closed my eyes, though in fact it was near
midday, when I was awakened by the report of a rifle, the bullet striking the bowlder just above my body.
The morning was hot, and the exercise of reading left her mind contracting and expanding like the main-spring of a clock, and the small noises of
midday, which one can ascribe to no definite cause, in a regular rhythm.
"The sun of knowledge stands once more at
midday; and the serpent of eternity lies coiled in its light--: It is YOUR time, ye
midday brethren."