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Yes, I feel it in my throat, and it goes right through my chest just 'ere, look! And I haven't slep' not a hour a night this last week; it makes me feel that low. I want to get to the Orspital, if I can, in a day or two. 'But doesn't the doctor come still? asked Sidney, drawing a chair near to her. 'Well, I didn't think it was right to go on payin' him, an' that's the truth.
"O Lord!" cried the negro, "ef Mist' Dode was hyur! Him's goin', an' him's las' breff is given ter de beast! Mars' Joe," calling in his ear, "fur God's sake say um prayer!" The man moved restlessly, half-conscious. "I wish David was here, to pray for me." The negro gritted his teeth, choking down an oath. "I wish, I thort I'd die at home, allays. That bed I've slep' in come thirty years.
Well, right after breakfast Karen come over lookin' as if she hadn't slep' a wink and sez she, "Jabez lay awake all night studyin' on it and he knows now where he made the mistake, he pinted one small lead pipe up where it ort to been pinted down, he can make it all right in an hour."
In response, wincing a little from pain and feebleness, Archie sat up, took the cup, and drained it with thirsty haste. "That's good," cried Peter, taking and refilling it. "It does me good to see you, sir. Oh, you are coming on fine. Slep' all night, didn't you?" he continued, as he steadied the cup. "I suppose so, Pete," said Archie, with a sigh. "I don't remember any thing."
Dat is, de rest of de darkies did. Dey kep' me up in de Big House, bein' mammyless lak. Mos'ly I slep' in de trun'le bed wid Miss Mary Jane till I got so bad dey had to mek a pallet on de flo' fer me. Dey was Mr. Bryant, Mr. A.D., Miss Martha, Miss Ann, Miss Helen, Miss Mary Jane, an' Mr. George, all b'longin' to Marse George an' Miss Margurite.
'Chad, he says, 'go out an' git six mo' bottles of dat old Madary; an' 'Chad, don't forgit de sweet ile; an' 'Chad, is we got claret enough to last ober Sunday? an' not a cent in de house. I ain't slep' none for two nights, worritin' ober dis business, an' I'm mos' crazy." I laid down my knife and fork and looked up.
'E started an inch off the table and ate till 'e touched, as we say in Staffordsheer, and then sent for 'is baggage, and 'as lain 'ere ever since in the great bedchamber over y'r yeds, an' I'm thinking to call it the Duke's Room an' charge sixpence extra for it. It's worth another sixpence to sleep in the same bed as a duke's slep' in. If it ain't, by gom, I'd like to know what he is for.
Probably asleep, anyhow, thinkin' he's safe. I slep' three hours this morning at the Major's; but Foy he didn't sleep any. Even if he did leave, they'd track him up in the morning and get him and he knows it. Somebody's goin' to be awfully annoyed when he misses this horse." He could see the riders, dim-flitting as they passed between him and the flames.
I slep', plaise your honor, in a little closet off o' the room the money was in." "Is it true that she slept there, Mr. Burke?" asked Vanston of the old man. "It is thrue, sir, God help me; that at all events is thrue." "Well, proceed," said Chevydale.
They make up about two hundred an' twenty beds in it altogether, an' these are chock-full a'most every night. One way or another they had forty-four thousand men, more or less, as slep' under this roof last year so I've bin told. That's patronisin', ain't it? To say nothin' o' the fellers as comes for grub, which, as you've found, is good for the money, and the attendants is civil.
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