Miss Pym disposes Josephine Tey

What a beuatiful beginning:

A bell clanged. Brazen, insistent, maddening.

Through the quiet corridors came the din of it,
making hideous the peace of the
morning. From each of the yawning windows of the
little quadrangle the noise
poured out on to the still, sunlit garden where the
grass was grey yet with dew.

She describe a picture of disturbance (to find her

watch) in morning to depict the innocence of a
person in a nascent awakening.
Here comes a nice conjunction:

As the clamour died into a complaining whimper

and then into silence, ......

She turned our notice from the character's

annoyance into her reflection.

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out of curiosity
in unbelieving fascination
do sb justice
sb v with one hand and v with the other
evolve ideas
by the time
learned societies
toy with the idea of
the civilised and cultured
marooned condition
a rushed warmth to the heart
take sth a grain of salt (•[™o≤KæL)
a fight between our sleepiness and our
ignorance.
supper doesn't finish much before half-past eight
a formidable conscience