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Every now and then, after Tom went to bed, he had sudden wakings out of his sleep, and his first thought was, "Oh, joy, it was all a dream!" Then he laid himself heavily down again, with a groan and the muttered words, "A nigger! I am a nigger! Oh, I wish I was dead!" He woke at dawn with one more repetition of this horror, and then he resolved to meddle no more with that treacherous sleep.

Then, all at once, my panic was lost in sudden great content, and thrusting away the knife I took flint and steel and therewith lighted my lanthorn; since now indeed I knew these dismal sounds nought but the creak and groan of the stout ship, the voice of her travail as she rose to the seas.

Here is a verse from Wallace Irwin: "'Suppose that this here vessel, says the skipper with a groan, 'Should lose 'er bearin's, run away and bump upon a stone; Suppose she'd shiver and go down when save ourselves we could'nt. The mate replies, 'Oh, blow me eyes! Suppose agin she shouldn't?"

He replied that he had no papa: he had a mama and a grandpapa. The stranger gave a deep groan. 'You see what you have done; you have cut me off from my own, he said terribly to the squire; but tried immediately to soothe the urchin with nursery talk and the pats on the shoulder which encourage a little boy to grow fast and tall.

Half an hour later the Peacock disappeared in the gloom, and the chase, for the time being, came to an end. "Sam, is that you?" "Yes." "We are trapped!" "It looks like it or rather feels like it. I can't see a thing." "Nor I. Did you find out anything about Dick?" "No." A groan came from the opposite end of the hold. "Here I am. How in the world did you get here?"

Here we will not talk at all, unless we like; and we will each groan as much as we please." "I am sorry to hear you speak so," said Margaret, tenderly. "Not that I do not agree with you.

But the women are going; and she rises with a groan, and drags herself after them.

I am better away, Hal my wife will be all the happier when I am gone," says my lord, with a groan, that tore the heart of Harry Esmond, so that he fairly broke into a sob over his patron's kind hand. "The business was talked over with Mohun before he left home Castlewood I mean" my lord went on.

Carey asked in the sympathetic-professional voice by which he controlled sick rooms. "Lord, Doc, is that you?" Darley Champers followed the words with a groan. "You are in a fix," Carey replied as he lifted Champers to his feet. Blood was on his face and clothes and the floor, and Champers himself was almost too weak to stand.

The heart of the young lover recognized the cry of despairing love, the prayer of a hidden plaint, the groan of repressed affliction. Camille had varied, modified, and lengthened the introduction to the cavatina: "Mercy for thee, mercy for me!" which is nearly the whole of the fourth act of "Robert le Diable."