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Yet once more and a distant hill, duskily blue against the bluer heavens, wakened for him some memory of his boyhood, seeming to challenge him to renew the old joys and to revel in the by- gone fervors. All these things softened the mood in which Maurice came back to the old town, and as he walked up the village street, so well remembered yet so strange, he had a sense of unreality.
As for the other Frenchmen, time, doubtless, hung heavy on their hands; for nothing can surpass the vacant monotony of an Indian town when there is neither hunting, nor war, nor feasts, nor dances, nor gambling, to beguile the lagging hours. Suddenly the village was wakened from its lethargy as by the crash of a thunderbolt.
I don't suppose you boys care to be wakened if we have any more midnight visitors?" he asked tentatively. "You needn't wake me up for any running race!" Tommy commented. "If it's all the same to you," Katz suggested, "I prefer to sleep the remainder of the night. Of course," he went on, "if you need me for your defence, you need have no compunctions in waking me."
Meantime Tom Gates was sunk in the deep sleep of physical exhaustion, and the day wore away before he wakened. When at last he regained consciousness he found the sun sinking in the west and feared he had been guilty of indiscretion. He remembered that he was Mr. Forbes's secretary now, and that Mr. Forbes might want him.
Such was the weird scene that lingered on the dreamy eyes of Joutel, as he closed them at last in a troubled sleep. The sound of a footstep soon wakened him; and, turning, he saw at his side, the figure of a naked savage, armed with a bow and arrows. Joutel spoke, but received no answer.
Jane spent the night with me, and being unable to sleep, owing to dieting again and having an emty stomache, wakened me at 2 A. M. and we went to the pantrey together. When going back upstairs with some cake and canned pairs, we heard a door close below. We both shreiked, and the Familey got up, but found no one except Leila, who could not sleep and was out getting some air.
I arrive on your invitation to pass the day" "But I didn't expect you before the sun." "To pass the day, and find you absent and the breakfast-table not cleared away." "My dear Roger, we have not quite taken our habits yet. As soon as the country-air shall have wakened and made over Helen and Mrs. Laudersdale, you will find us ready for company at daybreak."
They could hear the splashing water and sometimes feel it in the corner seat of marble he took her to. A crystal drop fell on her hand when she sat down. The blue of his eyes was vaguely troubled and he spoke as if he were not certain of himself. "I was wakened up in what seemed to me the middle of the night," he said, as if indeed the thing had happened only the day before.
"I'm all right, sir," Dugan spoke up faintly. "He ought to be kept quiet for a day or two," his young nurse decided. "I'll take him down to my cabin. Perhaps you can get him something to put him to sleep, Miss Wallace." Miss Berry came up the stairs just as we were starting down. She looked like a ghost. "Mr. Sedgwick, I've just been wakened from a nap.
"Well, they haven't killed and eaten us, sir; but I don't like this. You ought to ha' wakened me, doctor." "I was not awake myself, Bostock." "Oh! That was it, was it?" said the old sailor, shaking his head and looking very serious. "Then about work, sir; what's the first thing? Shall I see about breakfast?" The doctor was silent for a few moments. "Yes," he said at last.
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