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One of them managed one night to get hold of a stretcher in lieu of a bed, and just as he was settling down to his first beauty-sleep a carter came and told him to move on, as the stretcher was his.
Unless Thomson returns soon and it is already past nine o'clock we shall have to send out search-parties. Five minutes later Welch, enjoying a sound beauty-sleep, began to be possessed of a vague idea that somebody was trying to murder him. His subsequent struggles for life partially woke him, and enabled him to see dimly that two figures were standing by his bed.
I scratched gently, and then harder, till I heard the snores stop. He got out of bed and opened the door. 'Don't make a noise, I whispered. 'Come on downstairs. I want you to meet a friend of mine. At first he was quite peevish. 'What's the idea, he said, 'coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out. He actually started to go back into the room.
At "Cockerapeak," or, to speak less unpoetically, when Alectryon sings his hymn to the dawn, the working bees of the little hive must be up and stirring, whilst the master and mistress enjoy the beauty-sleep.
Their trunks, white and glistening with oozing resin, added to the ghostly impression they created in the uncertain and failing light. We reached the valley and rattled by a sleepy village, where we were greeted by a chorus of outraged curs whose beauty-sleep we had disturbed, and then began the slow ascent of the hill where St. Ildefonso stands.
In the streets, though they were by no means asleep, but, contrariwise, busy with the traffic of men and pack-mules, there was a shrewd bite as of night air; looking up we could perceive how faint the blue of the sky was, and the cloud-flaw how rosy yet with the flush of Aurora's beauty-sleep.
It was getting late, and as with a shower of coloured stars the magician in the compound accomplished a grand finale, Bernard put his arm around the narrow shoulders and said, with a kindly squeeze, "I am going to see my princess home again now. She mustn't lose all her beauty-sleep." She lifted her face to kiss him. "It has been lovely," she said. "I do wish I needn't go back to-night.
And then old Maisie waked from a dream about unmanageable shrimps, to utter the correct formula with a conviction of its truth, this time. She had only just closed her eyes. Only just! Miss Lutwyche, in attendance, ventured on sympathetic familiarity. Mrs. Picture would not get any beauty-sleep to-night, that was certain.
And would I please to remember that I had roused him up at night, and the quality always made a point of paying four times over for a man's loss of his beauty-sleep.
"An' that's all right," said Ortheris, withdrawing his head as he heard the hiccough of the Sniders in the distance. "S'elp me Gawd, tho', that man's not fit to live messin' with my beauty-sleep this way." "Go out and shoot him in the morning, then," said the subaltern incautiously. "Silence in the tents now. Get your rest, men."
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