Moreover, it was too evident that I had tried his courtesy long enough.

From time to time pale shades of bodily pain, and then hot flushes, had flitted across his face, like clouds on a windy summer evening.

And more than once he had glanced at the time-piece, not to hurry me, but as if he dreaded its announcements.
It was a beautiful clock, and struck with a silvery sound every quarter of an hour.

And now, as I rose to say good-by, to catch my evening train, it struck a quarter to five, and my cousin stood up, with his weight upon his staff, and looked at me with an inexpressible depth of weary misery.
"I have only a few minutes left," he said, "during which I can say any thing.

My time is divided into two sad parts: the time when I am capable of very little, and the time when I am capable of nothing; and the latter part is twice the length of the other.