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Chapter 20 And now for Lippiuss clock! said I, with the air of a man, who had got thro all his difficultiesnothing can prevent us seeing that, and the Chinese history, &c. except the time, said Francoisfor tis almost eleventhen we must speed the faster, said I, striding it away to the cathedral. I cannot say, in my heart, that it gave me any concern in being told by one of the minor canons, as I was entering the west door,That Lippiuss great clock was all out of joints, and had not gone for some yearsIt will give me the more time, thought I, to peruse the Chinese history; and besides I shall be able to give the world a better account of the clock in its decay, than I could have done in its flourishing condition And so away I posted to the college of the Jesuits. Now it is with the project of getting a peep at the history of China in Chinese charactersas with many others I could mention, which strike the fancy only at a distance; for as I came nearer and nearer to the pointmy blood cooldthe freak gradually went off, till at length I would not have given a cherry-stone to have it gratifiedThe truth was, my time was short, and my heart was at the Tomb of the LoversI wish to God, said I, as I got the rapper in my hand, that the key of the library may be but lost; it fell out as well For all the Jesuits had got the cholicand to that degree, as never was known in the memory of the oldest practitioner. |
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