The trouble will begin at 8." That line has done good service since.

Showmen have borrowed it frequently.

I have even seen it appended to a newspaper advertisement reminding school pupils in vacation what time next term would begin.

As those three days of suspense dragged by, I grew more and more unhappy.
I had sold two hundred tickets among my personal friends, but I feared they might not come.

My lecture, which had seemed "humorous" to me, at first, grew steadily more and more dreary, till not a vestige of fun seemed left, and I grieved that I could not bring a coffin on the stage and turn the thing into a funeral.