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The advice was good, and Maurice and Jean acted on it, having first prevailed on Henriette to take her brother's place on the sofa. If she could not go to sleep again, she would at least be securing some repose.
"But that is foolish; you don't understand." "I don't want to understand," I answered drowsily. "Margaret's only a child and I want to go to sleep; if I don't sleep over my sermon to-night, the people will to-morrow." For it was Saturday night. But "the child" was not asleep.
These and mosquitoes effectually banished sleep from their eye-lids, and caused them to reflect very seriously, and to state to each other more than once very impressively, that with all their beauties and wonders, tropical lands had their disadvantages, and there was no place like the "ould country," after all.
It was an engaging scene, and the did not return to the bow of the boat until ten minutes later, after taking a walk completely around the steamer's deck. In the bow a surprise awaited them. During their absence Dan Baxter had appropriated four of their camp chairs and was stretched out on them as if in sleep. "Oh, what a cheek!" cried Tom. "Let us haul him off," suggested Sam.
So, without answering Hochstraaten's question, she turned her face toward the chamber, and said, loudly enough to be heard by all present: "This reception must suffice for to-day! Whoever does not know that I used last night in his Majesty's service for a better purpose than sleep will deem me a lazy sluggard. Would to Heaven I had no worse fault!
And what fun they would have giving him his bath on the little beach inside the point! "I'll fix up a clothes-basket for him to sleep in!" declared Thyrsis. "Nonsense, dear!" said Corydon. "I've told you many times before we'll have to have a crib for him!" "But why?" cried he; and there would follow an argument which gave pain to his economical soul.
And everybody was pleased, and composed ourselves once more to listen. "How I got that there bird was like this," he began. "It were about half after four in the morning, summer before last, an' I was just having what I may call my beauty sleep, when all of a sudding there came a most thundering rat-a-tat-tat at the door. "'Good Lord, says my missus, 'whatever is that?
Another was administered to him soon after, and the eminent prelate fell into a deep sleep. The next day the people of Treves heard with great joy that the fever had completely disappeared. The bishop on awaking took another stout draught, and sang out of the depths of his grateful heart: "This famous wine restored my health, Sure, 'tis a splendid doctor." Genovefa
Once it monopolised the glory of the world, and here it is now for some two thousand years fallen into a kind of tired sleep, which has left it an easy prey alike to the conquerors of yesterday and to the exploiters of to-day.
Here, for instance, is his description of the female glutton: 'God commands fasting and the glutton says: "I will eat". God commands us to get up early and go to church and the glutton says: "I must sleep. I was drunk yesterday. The church is not a hare; it will wait for me." When she has with some difficulty risen, do you know what her hours are?
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