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"If I lie down that does not bind me to anything, and I shall certainly be more comfortable on a mattress than on a chair." I undressed slowly, and then, stepping over the sleeping girl, I stretched myself out against the wall, turning my back on temptation. In this position I remained for a long time without going to sleep, when suddenly my neighbor woke up.
Marchmont to call in an hour." With her maid's help she undressed, pinned her hair high, and slipped on a knee-high tunic of heavy chiffon. Barefooted, she entered a large room, walled in white and dull silver the end opposite the windows filled by a single mirror. Between the windows stood a great tank of gold and silver fish swimming among water lilies.
The upper servants among the women threw down their water-jars and started off; the Hindustani Durwans of the North-West Provinces, carrying bamboo staves, wearing cotton-quilted chintz coats, clattered along in shoes of undressed leather; the khansamahs, with towel on the shoulder and silver chain round the waist, went in search of the mistress.
With hands tender as a mother's, and weeping as she had never wept before, she undressed her, put her in a warm bath, then got her into bed, and used every enticement and persuasion to induce her to take some nourishment with poor success: the heart seemed to have gone out of her. But instinctively Amy asked for milk, and that brought her round better than anything else could have done.
Edna was soon undressed and placed within the snowy sheets of a heavily-carved bedstead, whose crimson canopy shed a ruby light down on the laced and ruffled pillows. Mrs. Murray administered a dose of medicine given to her by Dr.
His face was white and his teeth would chatter although he bit his lips and his fingers shook as he undressed, and his stud slipped and he could not undo his braces and always his ears were open for the sound of the step on the stairs. At last he was in his night-shirt, and a very melancholy figure he looked as he stood shivering in the middle of the floor.
The laws of the institution however evinced their high regard for the purity and modesty of the vestal maidens by requiring that the blows should be administered in the dark, the sufferer having been previously prepared to receive them by being partially undressed by her female attendants. The extinguished fire was then rekindled with many solemn ceremonies.
The servants were tired after Mrs Wigson's party, so every one went to bed early, and when the Phoenix reported that both servants were snoring in a heartfelt and candid manner, the children got up they had never undressed; just putting their nightgowns on over their things had been enough to deceive Eliza when she came to turn out the gas.
"Now, it is nine o'clock," she said, addressing her mistress, "and you have got to go to bed." Her voice was sharp and authoritative. The reply came in a low murmur of expostulation. "I'm going to the Pagoda to-night," continued Lily, "but you will be all right. As soon as you are undressed you shall have your dose." On hearing this promise Mrs.
Bertram readily assented to the motion of his faithful friend, but, on looking at the bed, felt repugnance to trust himself undressed to Mrs. Mac-Guffog's clean sheets. 'I'm muckle o' your opinion, Captain, said Dandie. 'Od, this bed looks as if a' the colliers in Sanquhar had been in't thegither.
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