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"You may be right," I said, with the utmost gravity, "but I did it only in justice to you. You were talking, true enough, but in your sleep; saying things that well, no gentleman could have remained awake, in the circumstances." "I didn't," she cried, darting me a look of uncertainty. "Echochee says I never do!"
Good night, be brave, act as your reason tells you, even if it makes you weep, and you will find peace surely enough." Later on, when Pierre again found himself alone in his little house at Neuilly, where none now visited him save the shades of his father and mother, he was long kept awake by a supreme internal combat.
"He's well enough except for mischief," put in Aunt Prue through the buttery door. "Prue never thinks anything ails anybody," said Mrs. Brush, sinking her voice to a whisper. "I'm really consarned about Charley. He don't eat hardly anything at dinner. That aint a bit natural for a growin' boy. And he says he lies awake a great deal of nights.
One dismounted and stooped over Winthrop. The other sat his horse, silent, vigilant, saturnine. "Say, where's your pal, that there Overland Red guy?" asked the constable, shaking Winthrop awake and glaring at him with a bleared and baleful eye.
But he could not always keep his thoughts on the manuscript, and, forgetful of Heraclitus, he often sat thinking of Jesus' promise that one morning men would awake to find that God had come to judge the world and divide it among those that repented their sins.
In 1901 the street still suggested the time when it had been lined by the dull, monotonous high stoops. Those old fronts had been knocked away, business had invaded many of the lower stories, but there still remained something of the former flavour. But property holders were awake to their opportunities.
Tasso lay awake almost all night, composing the verses; and next day enclosed them, with a letter, in another to Constantini, ardently begging him to keep the prince in mind of his promise. The prince had not forgotten it; and two or three days afterwards, the order for the release arrived, and Tasso quitted his prison. He had been confined seven years, two months, and several days.
Joan raised up a little to see Kells motionless and absorbed by the fire. He had a strained and tense position. She sank back softly and looked up at the cold bright stars. What was going to happen to her? Something terrible! The very night shadows, the silence, the presence of strange men, all told her. And a shudder that was a thrill ran over and over her. She would lie awake.
At New-Year's the great thing was to sit up and watch the old year out; but the little boys could not have kept awake even if their mothers had let them. In some families, perhaps of Dutch origin, the day was kept instead of Christmas, but for most of the fellows it was a dull time. You had spent all your money at Christmas, and very likely burst your pistol, anyway.
We kept late hours that night; for, delightful certainty! placed beyond all doubt like royal landsmen, we were masters of the watches of the night, and no starb-o-leens ahoy! would annoy us again. "All night in! think of that, Harry, my friend!" "Ay, Wellingborough, it's enough to keep me awake forever, to think I may now sleep as long as I please."
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