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Abner was in quite as sleepless a condition as Toby; Aunt Olive had invited him to remain overnight, so that he might see everything that was going on, and as he lay in the soft, geranium-scented bed, his eyes were kept wide open by his delight with what seemed to him the magnificence of the room.
Archibius and Dion had spent a sleepless night and day. The heavy air, pervaded by a fine mist, had grown cool. After refreshing themselves by a repast, they paced up and down the deck of the Epicurus. Few words were exchanged, and they wrapped their cloaks closer around them. Both had quaffed large draughts of the fiery wine with which the Epicurus was well supplied, but it would not warm them.
They had adventures a plenty in pounding upon doors of wrong houses and thus arousing the fury of sleepy men and sleepless dogs. One of the latter tore away a quarter-section of the schoolmaster's rubber coat, and became so interested in this that the owner escaped with no further damage. After an hour filled with such experiences they finally came to the right house.
Tears streamed from my eyes; and with a heart pierced through and through, I once more took refuge in the shade. I leaned on the houses for support, and reached home at a late hour, worn out with fatigue. I passed a sleepless night. My first care the following morning was to devise some means of discovering the man in the gray cloak.
It was this power of his fellow cadets that made Dodge shiver as he lay sleepless in the hospital ward. Cadet Holmes returned to duty and was greeted hilariously by his many friends. He was even envied, in disregard of the sad event that had given him his leave. "You fellows make me tired," grumbled Greg.
Now the light of morning gathered again on all the temple tops, and men rose from sleep to go about their labours. Meriamun watched it grow as she lay sleepless in her golden bed, waiting for the cry that presently should ring along the Palace walls. Hark! What was that? The sound of swinging doors, the rush of running feet. And now it came long and shrill it rose. "Pharaoh is dead! Awake!
There is a great scene in the last book of Scripture, the whole solemn significance of which, I suppose, we shall not understand till we have learned it by experience, but the truth of which we have sufficient premonitions to assure us of, which declares that at a given time, on the confines of Eternity, the Great White Throne is to be set, and the books are to be opened, and the dead are judged 'out of the books, which, the seer goes on to explain, is 'according to their works. The story of Esther tells us how the sleepless monarch in the night-watches sent for the records of the kingdom and had them read to him.
It had cost him a sleepless night; and when he woke to a new day's work, he was in an extremely irritable humour.
No message came, however, and when he had seen her again that evening, he felt more reassured. "It's nothing really nothing. I'm only tired ... yes, it was too much. Just let me be, Maurice till to-morrow." And she shut her eyes again, and kept them shut, till she heard the door close behind him. He was reassured, but still, for the greater part of the night, he lay sleepless.
I had returned to the 'Three Jolly Anglers, determined to follow the advice of the Duchess and return to London by the next train. Yet, after passing a sleepless night, here I was sitting in my old place beneath the alders pretending to fish. The river was laughing among the reeds just as merrily as ever, bees hummed and butterflies wheeled and hovered life and the world were very fair.
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