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But the familiar moon came out, shining through the foliage, and this soothed him into a light slumber. He was wakened by a sound near by that he had heard all his life at a distance a wild chorus of barking. It was coming his way, and he crouched and waited, grasping a stone in each hand.
That had been Susy's discovery: for the first time she was among awakening minds which had been wakened only to beauty.
For a few minutes he lost consciousness, started up to blame his weakness, and looked at his watch. But he had only slumbered for five minutes. At six o'clock he told himself that it was morning, and went in again to Sir Walter. The old man had wakened, and was sitting in quiet reflection until daylight should outline the great window above the dead.
And Paul made gruff reply, 'Ye're very welcome, turned about as if he were running away, and tumbled down-stairs, and out of the house, without even answering Mrs. King's 'Good-night. Harold had wakened at the sounds. He heard all, but he chose to seem to be asleep, and, would you believe it? he was only the more provoked!
And shook her again. Mrs. Dicky groaned and yawned, and opened her eyes one at a time. But when she saw it was Miss Patty she sat up at once, looking dazed and frightened. "You needn't pinch me, Pat!" she said, and at that Mr. Dick wakened and jumped up, with the carriage robe still around him. "Oh, Dolly, Dolly!" said Miss Patty suddenly, dropping on her knees beside Mrs.
He awoke finally with a start, out of a dream in which he had found himself, in imagination, wakened by Scottie stooping over him. He had reached for his revolver at his side, in the dream, and had found nothing. Now, waking, his hand was working nervously across the floor of the shack.
She says she thought it was Nancy bringing in the tea when she heard some one moving; for her ladyship, as soon as she saw the state of the case, came and knelt down on the rug by me, and begged my pardon so prettily for having followed Nancy upstairs without waiting for permission; and was so taken by my old lace, and wanted to know how I washed it, and where you were, and when you'd be back, and when the happy couple would be back: till sister wakened she's always a little bit put out, you know, when she first wakens from her afternoon nap, and, without turning her head to see who it was, she said, quite sharp,
But Nan thought differently, and they sat late together last night, and 'twas a bonny story Nan wakened me to hear when she came to bed the story of a braw lover who let his secret out when the whisky was above the wit, and then fell asleep while his rival was away to woo and win his lass. Did you ever hear a like story, Mr. Campbell? "'Oh, yes, said Neil fiercely.
But the eyes were open and sensitive, though the films of the grave were setting upon them. "He wakened fra' his sleep, as yo left him in, and began to mutter and moan; but he soon went off again, and we never knew he were awake till he called his wife, but now she's here he's gotten nought to say to her." Most probably, as they all felt, he could not speak, for his strength was fast ebbing.
Some nights they would be wakened by the uproar from the drunken sailors in the tavern, and hear the angry words of their mother, or the slaps she would rain on impudent cheeks. More than once the frail partition of their bedroom had threatened to give way as some staggering body fell against it.
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