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Dry your eyes, and be sensible;" and Dale, plunging his hands in his pockets, hurried out of the office. He walked as far as the Baptist Chapel, and straight back again; and before he got home he made a solemn resolution to rouse himself from the idle lethargic state into which he felt himself slipping deeper and deeper.

Through these spongy lungs of ours we lay hold upon the outward world in the most intimate and constant way. Through them we are rooted to the air. The air is a mechanical mixture of two very unlike gases nitrogen and oxygen; one very inert, the other very active. Nitrogen is like a cold-blooded, lethargic person it combines with other substances very reluctantly and with but little energy.

The country, between storms, lay bare and naked, bleakly barren where the winds swept; somber in the valleys, with desolation reigning on the coldly gleaming peaks of the hills and the distant mountains. Willets was somnolent, lethargic.

The study of books is a languishing, feeble motion, that heats not, whereas conversation teaches and exercises at once. But what if a book could be constructed on a new principle, so as to produce the effect of conference of the noblest kind of conference so as to rouse the stupid, lethargic mind to a truly human activity so as to bring out the common, human form, in all its latent actuality, from the eccentricities of the individual varieties?

If we ourselves live in fulness of content, it is well to be reminded that thousands of our fellow-creatures undergo a different lot; it is well to have sleepy sympathies excited, and lethargic selfishness shaken up.

"What is it?" asked Domini, stifling a sigh. "Madame should draw the curtains. We are halfway to Arba. It is time for dejeuner. I will make the camel of Madame lie down." A loud "A-a-ah!" rose up, followed by a fierce groaning from the camel, and a lethargic, yet violent, movement that threw them forward and backward. They sank.

He lifted belated hands, but met a glance from his wife which made him drop them silently. There was a satire in her eyes, a sort of humorous, half-urging patronage that pierced the hide of his self-satisfied and lethargic mind. She seemed sitting there ready to beat time to his applause, nod her head to it as to a childish strain of jigging music.

They all felt instinctively that she despised them and the slow, lethargic temperament which was in most of them an inheritance from a father cast in one of the typical moulds of British Philistinism. There was some insurmountable difference between her and them.

"Old who, did you say?" inquired Thorneycroft with a smile. "Why, old Chief Sleepy-eye, that lethargic and comatose old piece of cheese that you call Letstrayed, of course. I suppose his ancestor must have got the name Letstrayed because he was let stray away from some asylum for the feeble-minded. Look, here he is now! Speak of the devil and he appears, darned if he don't!"

Then we may teach an ignorant soul, or rouse a slothful one to action; we may alarm one who is lethargic, worldly, sensual, "without God or Christ in the world," so as to win him to both; or we may comfort the feeble-minded, and support the weak. Circumstances may give us the opportunity, and the "moment in life," when such works may be done.