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Everything remained perfectly quiet as they made their way upstairs to their rooms as silently as possible. "Where is Nellie?" Captain Dave asked, when they assembled at breakfast. "She is not well," his wife replied, "I went to her room just now and found that she was still a-bed.
"And I know perfectly well it's no good asking you to stay away." He let this pass. Could it be that the girl was already babbling in delirium? "And all the time," she presently went on, "I'll simply be sick a-bed, picking at the covers, all blue around the gills.
He was still alive and hearty; though bent nearly double with extreme age; and dwelt on the borders of one of the Irish bogs, at the head of an extensive colony of Maroons. One night Teddy the younger ascended to the lantern to trim the candles; he snuffed them all round and returned to the kitchen to have a pipe, his two mates being a-bed at the time.
Sir Marmaduke Nevile descends to the court below, and some three or four busy, curious gentlemen, not yet a-bed, seize him by the arm, and pray him to say what storm is in the wind. The night deepened still.
My sands sink in the glass, but as I lie a-bed I hear the bustle of wains and horses in the streets, and the talk of shipfolk, and the clatter of my serving men beneath, and I know that daily, hourly, more riches flow hither to furnish my son's kingdom." The monk's eyes sparkled at this vision of wealth, and he remembered his errand. "A most noble heritage.
Procure her! with all my soul, Sir; alas, you mistake my honest meaning, I scorn to be so unjust as not to see you a-bed together; and then agree as well as you can, I have done my part In order to this, Sir get but your self conveyed in a Chest to my house, with a Direction upon't for me; and for the rest Gay. I understand you. Sir Feeb. Ralph, get supper ready.
Les jours de fete, bien souvent, La foule s'ecrie en buvant Devant: Oh! oh! oh! oh! ah! ah! ah! ah! Quel bon petit roi c'etait la! La, la. There was a king of Yvetot, Of whom renown hath little said, Who let all thoughts of glory go, And dawdled half his days a-bed; And every night, as night came round, By Jenny, with a nightcap crowned, Slept very sound: Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he!
They lies a-bed when the likes o' me must go out what they calls a-custamongering, broken head and all. 'You shall stay at home for a week if you like, Job that is if I've got enough to give you a week's earnings. I'm not sure though till I look, for I'm not a rich man any more than yourself. 'Rubbish! said Job as he got in again; 'I was only flummuxing the old un.
He now knocked at the gate with the pommel of his sword, till his host came, who started with surprise on seeing him there. "I thought you were safe a-bed," he said. "So I was. But I sprang from the window to help an old fellow of mine." When they came to the light, Kay recognized Lancelot, and fell on his knees to thank him for saving his life.
But after I was a-bed and asleep, a note came from my brother Tom to tell me that my cozen Anne Pepys, of Worcestershire, her husband is dead, and she married again, and her second husband in town, and intends to come and see me to-morrow. 13th.
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