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The free peasant has, indeed, the advantage that he can go off and seek his fortune in the wide world; whereas the serf who is attached to the soil, glebae adscriptus, has an advantage which is perhaps still greater, that when failure of crops or illness, old age or incapacity, render him helpless, his master must look after him, and so he sleeps well at night; whereas, if the crops fail, his master tosses about on his bed trying to think how he is to procure bread for his men.
You're such touchy devils. Then, changing the note into one of almost abject entreaty, Hummil added, 'I say, you surely aren't going? 'In the language of the blessed Jorrocks, where I dines I sleeps, said Spurstow. 'I want to have a look at your coolies to-morrow, if you don't mind. You can give me a place to lie down in, I suppose?
The young man tossed one of his braids back across his shoulder and turned his head to face Ross squarely. "Your chief come our camp. Talk with Foscar two four sleeps ago." "How talk with Foscar? With hunter talk?" For the first time Ennar did not appear altogether certain. He scowled and then snapped, "He talk Foscar, us. We hear right words not woods creeper talk. He speak to us good."
'By Allah, said Noureddin to the damsel, 'this is a pleasant place! And she answered, 'O my lord, let us sit down on these benches and rest awhile. So they mounted and sat down on the benches, after having washed their faces and hands; and the air smote on them and they fell asleep, glory be to Him who never sleeps!
"You cannot think of the joy when there is a moon and stars; and some of the night creatures are such friends they teach me wonderful things. Only the dreadful difficulty is in avoiding Priscilla she sleeps in the dressing-room next me. I love her better than anyone else in the world, but she could never understand she would only worry about the wet feet and clothes being spoilt.
"Not for money," she answered, "but if I may pass the first night outside the door of the room where your betrothed sleeps, I will give it up to you."
He stared again at the twinkling light of Helen May's lamp. What in the world was she doing up at that hour of the night? "Oh, well, maybe she sleeps with a light burning." He dismissed the unusual incident, and went on about his more urgent business.
So at the age when one sleeps well indeed but does feel sometimes as if the need of sleep were a mere weakness of a distant old age, I kept easily awake; and in my freshness I was kept amused by the contrast of personalities, of the disclosed facts and moral outlook with the rough initiations of my West-Indian experience.
But, although he may go to bed, he sleeps very little; he is frequently troubled by insomnia, and gets up and sends for a secretary to dictate memoranda or letters to him. When any interesting matter requires his attention he gives himself up to it heart and soul, never letting it escape his thoughts. And his life, his health, lies in all this.
"I want to know what he does when the door is closed and he can take off his mask. And I want to know if he sleeps with a light." "If he does," I replied, "I hope you'll let me know, Mr. Holcombe. The gas bills are a horror to me as it is. I think he kept it on all last night. I turned off all the other lights and went to the cellar. The meter was going around." "Fine!" he said.
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