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Here the peddler disposed of the remaining goods in his two packs at a country store, and went into business as the keeper of a dancing-bear. That night the two slept in an old barn, curled down in the hay, and nestled closely together for warmth. When his deep breathing told the bear that his new master was sleeping soundly, he crawled carefully out of their nest and tried to slip away.
She stole to the room where the money was, opened the door, and looked in. God be praised! He was not there, and she was sleeping soundly. She went back to her own room, and tried to prepare herself for bed. But who could sleep sleep! who could lie passively down, distracted by such terrors? They came upon her more and more strongly yet.
She was the life of the dinners she attended nd as talkative and witty as ever. But the strain affected her greatly. She was outwardly controlled, statuesque and dignified, but the inward turmoil of emotion that surged through her manifested itself in an unremitting activity. She slept well and soundly, but rose early and kept on the go.
Come up by the 11.30 to-night, and bring Mrs. Bower. The marquis did not appear at dinner. He was in bed, and, thanks to a sleeping potion, slumbered soundly. He awoke about nine in the morning to find Mrs. Bower by his bedside. 'Eh, marquis, finely we have jinked them, said Mrs.
Through the zealous labors of these families in class meetings and prayer meetings, there was a great revival in the spring of 1779, which stirred the whole neighborhood. Among those who were awakened and soundly converted, were all the members of the Black family.
They attacked us at Donaldsonville with a much larger force in proportion to ours but got soundly thrashed; we being strongly reinforced, came out to meet them and got whipped, and so the matter rested. The commanding officer of the brigade was flanked through carelessness and they had to fall back with a loss of two cannon. Our brigade was on the reserve.
There followed a faint hiss, and a noxious smell of burning hair was wafted to my nostrils. I leapt up, seized the man by the collar, and shook him soundly. "What are you at?" I exclaimed. Turning in my grasp he whispered with a scarcely audible, but exceedingly repulsive, giggle: "Haven't I given her a good fright, eh?" Then he added: "Now, let me go! Let go, I say!" "Have you lost your wits?"
He again felt himself inexpressibly vile compared to her, yet not repenting for an instant of what he had said he went home, and without even glancing at the old men who were drinking in his room he lay down and fell asleep more soundly than he had done for a long time. The next day was a holiday.
The Major was telling him, in effect, that he might have kept the Platform from crashing on take-off. It was a good but upsetting sensation. It was still more important to Joe that the Platform get out to space than that he be credited with saving it. And it was not reassuring to hear that it might have been wrecked. "Your reasoning," added the Major coldly, "was soundly based.
Both were apparently sleeping soundly, while in an adjoining tent Ned Rector and Stacy Brown were breathing regularly, sleeping the sleep that naturally comes after a day in the saddle over the rugged, uneven slopes of the Ozark Mountains. Professor Zepplin uttered something that sounded not unlike an Indian's grunt of disgust. "Dreams!" he decided sharply.
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