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On her knees she held the boy whose head soon drooped drowsily in spite of his hunger. It was a long, bare room, newly boarded as to ceiling, flooring and walls. A smooth and shining counter stretched along the west side of the room, behind which stood rows of well filled bottles, ready to be uncorked.
'Good lad! good lad! he muttered. 'Addington is a fool! Then drowsily, as his head sunk on his hand again, 'The man may enter. I will tell him! It was into an atmosphere highly charged, therefore, in which the lightning had scarcely ceased to play, and might at any moment dart its fires anew, that Mr. Fishwick was introduced.
Whilst I was reading this afternoon my thoughts strayed, and I found myself recalling a hillside in Suffolk, where, after a long walk I rested drowsily one midsummer day twenty years ago.
Suddenly Arcot realized he was unbearably sleepy. He glanced drowsily toward Morey who was already lying down. He found it a tremendous effort of the will to make himself reach up and close the switch that started the little camera whirring almost noiselessly. It seemed he never pulled his arm back he just lay there and A white uniformed man was bending over him as he opened his eyes.
Although the paddlers wear no clothes and do not hesitate to jump into the water at any moment it is curious that they dislike rain very much and never work so well as when a hot sun is shining. The least diminution of temperature indeed affects them very much and they sit drowsily over the fire hugging themselves, being aroused to action only with difficulty.
Now even as Beltane looked thitherward, he heard the rattle of dice and a sleepy voice that cursed drowsily, and shaking off the clutching, desperate fingers that strove to stay him, he came, soft-treading, and peered through the curtains.
Blake sighed drowsily, and stretched out again on the flat of his back. Within a minute he was fast asleep. At dawn they roused him out of his drugged sleep and gave him a showerbath and rubdown that brought a healthy glow to his cold skin. He turned pale at the mere mention of food, but after a drink of quassia, Griffith induced him to take a cup of clear coffee and some thickly buttered toast.
'An' he allwus said a bear was good comp'ny if he'd only keep his mouth shet jes' like some folks I've hearn uv. 'An' what 'come o' the crow? 'Went t' the ol' crow doctor 'n got his wing fixed, he said, drowsily. And in a moment I heard him snoring. We had been asleep a long time when the barking of Fred woke us.
Now as Beltane breathed the cool, sweet air of evening and looked about him drowsily, he suddenly espied a shadow within the shadows, a dim figure yet formidable and full of menace, and he started up, weapon in fist, whereupon the threatening figure stirred and spake: "Master 'tis I!" said a voice. Then Beltane came forth of the grot and stared upon Black Roger, grave-eyed.
"The world does not know the difference between Armenians and Turks!" he complained again and again. Once again we arranged ourselves about his open chimney-place, this time with Kagig on a foot-stool in the midst of us. Heat, weariness, and process of digestion were combining to make us drowsily comfortable, and I, for one, would have fallen asleep where I sat.
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