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They were lost in the pleasant countries of sleep. "Three more days." Both men fell asleep with these words upon their lips. But the next morning Trench waked up and complained of a fever; and the fever rapidly gained upon him, so that before the afternoon had come he was light-headed, and those services which he had performed for Feversham, Feversham had now to perform for him.
Sometimes in those terrible half-dreams in the dark of early morn when suddenly waked by conscience to hold a tete-a-tete with her, he would imagine himself walking into the bank, and encountering the eyes of all the men on his way to his uncle, whom next to his father he feared then find himself running for refuge to the bosom of his mother.
"If I build one," I said, "it will be a perilous one enough. Have you looked seaward?" "We waked but a minute agone," he answered. As he spoke, he straightened his great form and lifted his face from the fire to the blue sea.
But this must not go on! See, I have brought you a little pocket- book. I will call again tomorrow, and you will tell me then how you like it." He laid the pocket-book on the table. There was ten times as much in it as ever Letty had had at once. But she never knew what was in it. She rose with instant resolve. All the woman in her waked at once.
But she would soon find out, and would keep near the bed till she felt confidence.... Oh yes they would be all right! The door-hasp shrieked like a mandrake as door-hasps do, in silence but waked no one, apparently. There was the kitchen-door at the end of the brick-paved lobby, letting through dawn's first decision about the beginning of the day.
After our stakes were driven he would come quietly in the night and pull them up, so we would find our canvas flapping in the morning breeze when we waked. Or, after we had retired for the night, he would come with some other, stand within hearing distance, and threaten us if we did not move away.
Now was the dawn fading into full daylight; and between dawn and sunrise were all men stirring; for the watch had waked the hundred- leaders, and they the leaders of scores and half-scores, and they the whole folk; and they sat quietly in the wood and made no noise.
What infinite possibilities are wrapped up in the soul of a boy! Leaving him standing there we wondered what thoughts were passing through his mind, we made our way along the mountain road. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's sped, And feeling hearts touch them but rightly pour A thousand melodies unheard before.
"What! won't you stand? won't you answer to your villanies? won't you fight? Pull out your barkers and blaze away, you small-souled scamps; I long to have a crack at you here and there both at a time! Aint you willing? I'm the sleepy trout-fisherman! Don't you know me? You've waked me up, my lads, and I sha'n't sleep again in a hurry!
Thus prepared, he doubtless meant to stay awake; but for all that, he before long fell asleep; and slept with such hearty good-will too, that the men who left us that night might have been waked up by his snoring. Certain it was, the mate snored most strangely; and no wonder, with that crooked bugle of his.
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