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The silence in the room had lasted so long that he began to feel drowsy under the influence of this quiet warmth. He watched the shadow sleepily, and dreamy fancies floated across his brain. The clean-cut, delicate profile was magnified to colossal proportions on the blank wall.
Dulce's silvery laugh is waking an echo lower down. There is a great sense of rest and happiness in the hour. A big, lazy bumblebee, tumbling sleepily into Portia's lap, wakes her into life. It lies upon her, looking larger and blacker than its wont, as it shows against the pallor of her gown. She starts, and draws herself up with a half-suppressed cry.
"Brande." "Good-night. You did not blunder far;" this sleepily. I went out and closed the door quietly. I had gained something. I was within one door of my destination, for I knew that Halley was berthed between Rockingham and Brande. But I did not know on which side Brande's room was, and I dared not ask. I tried the next door going forward. It opened like the other. I went in. "Hallo there!"
It has a good deal to do with my distrust of Starr and his 'Almas Perderse'." At an ungodly hour the next morning Winnie North was summoned to the telephone. "Hello! What the deuce is it?" he demanded sleepily, but the voice which came to him over the wire speedily dispelled his somnolence. "That you, Win? This is Kearn Thode." "What! Gad, old man, it's good to hear your voice!" Winnie exclaimed.
Roused suddenly a little after twelve o'clock by an unusual sound, Phoebe woke with a start and cried to her husband: "Will Will, do hark to Ship! He 'm barkin' that savage!" Will turned and growled sleepily that it was nothing, but the bark continued, so he left his bed and looked out of the window. A waning moon had just thrust one glimmering point above the sombre flank of the hill.
I wandered over to the edge of the little cemetery, and, sitting down, leaned against the hot wall, under the sleepy, flickering shade of the neglected olives and expiring walnuts of the Mission garden. Sleepily I watched the anxious labors of a hornet, busily building its nest of clay. A dragonfly hung for a moment before me, then alighted on a leaf and was suddenly smitten asleep.
The justly aroused fellow-townsmen were all back under the awnings leaning against the wall by the post-office, sitting on boxes by the grocery; some indolently telling stories and chaffing; some looking sleepily before them in absolute repose; some in various stages of inert drunkenness.
"Where are we?" Bellamy asked sleepily. "Near Munich, Monsieur," the man answered. "Monsieur noticed, perhaps, that we stopped for some time in the night?" Bellamy shook his head. "I sleep soundly," he said. "I heard nothing." "There has been an accident," the man declared. "An American gentleman who got in at Vienna was drinking whiskey all night and became very drunk.
And when, after a few minutes, my mother-in-law yawned sleepily and went to her room, I drew a deep breath of relief. Dicky drew my chair close to his, and we sat for a long time looking at the leaping flames, only occasionally speaking. It was at the end of a long silence that Dicky turned toward me, with eyes so troubled that all my fears leaped up anew. I sprang to my feet.
The dog was sleepily watching them lest in their quick movements his tail should come to grief. Gregory had something of an artist's eye, and he could not help glancing up from his reading occasionally, and thinking what a pretty picture the roomy parlor made. "Annie," said Mr. Walton, after a little while, "I can't get through this article with my old eyes. Won't you finish it for me?
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