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"Now, lie as still as a statue while I waken Hester." Soon the two little sisters were wide awake. "Now, both of you creep very softly into my bed. We can all squeeze up together if we try hard." "Lovely, darlingest Betty!" whispered Sylvia. "You are nice, Bet!" exclaimed Hester. "Now I want to speak," said Betty. "You know the packet?"
"In my first letter to my father, I told you, that from the moment our late lethargic lieutenant-colonel came to the island, he took to drinking rum, pure rum, to waken himself claret, port, and madeira, had lost their power over him. Then came brandy, which he fancied was an excellent preservative against the yellow fever, and the fever of the country.
O, let them cry. To them that ne'er have striven The truth that lies behind a word to find, To them the word's right meaning was not given. They shall continue blind among the blind. But thou, O word, so clear, so strong, so pure, Thou sayest all which I for goal have taken. I give thee to the future! Thine secure When each at least unto himself shall waken. Comes it in sunshine?
"Ay, ay," the new-comer would say, by way of responding to the sober salutation, "Ay, Johnny." Then there was silence, but for the "gluck" with which we lifted our feet from the slush. "So Little Rathie's been ta'en awa'," Johnny would venture to say by and by. "He's gone, Johnny; ay, man, he is so." "Death must come to all," some one would waken up to murmur.
Perturbed and distressed, Bibbs rose instinctively; he felt himself at every possible disadvantage. He was a sleeper clinging to a dream a rough hand stretched to shake him and waken him. He went to a table and made vague drawings upon it with a finger, and as he spoke he kept his eyes lowered. "You weren't altogether right about the shop that is, in one way you weren't, father."
Miss Monro need not have feared for Ellinor: she saw and heard all things as in a mist a dream; as something she had to go through, before she could waken up to a reality of brightness in which her youth, and the hopes of her youth, should be restored, and all these weary years of dreaminess and woe should be revealed as nothing but the nightmare of a night.
Lady O'Gara's first terror was of a scene which should waken Stella and alarm her in her weak state. She made as if to stand between the two women: she looked fearfully for the signs of the rising storm as she remembered them in Mrs. Comerford, the heaving breast, the working hands, the dilated nostrils. But there were none of these signs. Instead Mrs. Comerford was curiously quiet.
"Mademoiselle Olivia," said Count Victor, "I am what do you call it? a somnambulist. In that condition it has sometimes been my so good fortune to wander into the most odd and ravishing situations. But as it happens, helas! I can never recall a single incident of them when I waken in the morning. Ma foi!" "Mungo knows all," said the lady; "Mungo will explain."
I've been crying, and I look such an idiot." "Right-o, ma. But don't bother about that. Mrs. King has had her share o' crying in her time. She won't think nothing of that." She realized that it was necessary to waken Louis as she heard the door open and a conversation between two people. A little figure of a woman came out to the cab and spoke to her. "It's all right, my dear," she said quietly.
So the taking her Bible in hand would have been a mere form; though of this Alice Rose knew nothing. No one knew much of what was passing in Sylvia; she did not know herself. Sometimes in the nights she would waken, crying, with a terrible sense of desolation; every one who loved her, or whom she had loved, had vanished out of her life; every one but her child, who lay in her arms, warm and soft.
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