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I will stay with you at night, and just have a bit of sleep in the mornings. Your sister can manage after I've seen to father's breakfast and while I'm a-lying down, and if she wants me, she's only got to call." The mother looked worn and anxious, as though, even with Mrs. Dunsfold's assistance, her rest had been insufficient. "Mrs. Crowhurst," said Catharine, "go to bed again directly.
Well, sir, when I came into this room yesterday when the alarm was given, the very first thing I saw was Mr. Gilchrist's tan gloves a-lying in that chair. I knew those gloves well, and I understood their message. If Mr. Soames saw them the game was up. I flopped down into that chair, and nothing would budge me until Mr. Soames he went for you.
He's a-lying without a bit of conscientiousness on my bed, his eyes shut, and his breath a-coming hard." "Something frightened him, no doubt. The belief in poor Rachel's ghost has been so popular, that every night fright is attributed to that.
The smoke-stack, which was well forward, had been broken down by a spar when the masts had been cut, and as the waves washed into the hole that it left, the captain had this plugged up with old sails, well fastened down. It was a dreadful thing to see the ship a-lying with her bows clean under water and her stern sticking up.
The repetition of the question nettled Katie. "My good g'acious alibe," she said, "what I tell you? You think you gwine catch me in a lie by 'peating of questions ober and ober in dat a way? Now look here, young marse, I aint been tellin' of you no lies, and if I was a-lying, you couldn't catch me dat a way, 'cause I'se got too good a membery, dere!
So having tuned the harp, Altisidora, running her hand across the strings, began this ballad: O thou that art above in bed, Between the holland sheets, A-lying there from night till morn, With outstretched legs asleep; O thou, most valiant knight of all The famed Manchegan breed, Of purity and virtue more Than gold of Araby;
'His messages go to the Conisby Arms, but he aren't there, I know. 'The Faithful Friend, was it, says the big fellow, 'a-lying off Deptford Creek? 'Aye, the Faithful Friend, says Gregory, and then chancing to look outside, claps finger to lip and comes creeping into the shadow.
'Because he's a-lying dead! said the girl. 'He's the schoolmaster that was drowned yesterday. 'O! said the bride, covering her eyes. 'Then he was in this room till just now? 'Yes, said the maid, thinking the young lady's agitation natural enough.
Her as was the first to bear down to the great 'Wrestler, a-lying there hull over in water, and took aboard all as ever she could hold o' the passengers; a-pitching out her own beautiful cabin fittings to have as much room for the poor wretches as ever she could? Be you a-meaning her?" Cecil nodded assent. "She was my yacht, that's all; and I was without a captain through that storm.
Wretched as he was, hot, weary, and smarting and stinging from scratches and pricks, Mark could not help laughing at the little sailor's irritable manner. "Ah, you may laugh, my lad, a-lying all so comfortable there! but if you'd had such a slip as I did off a rock, and came down sitting on a thorn as big as a marlin'-spike, you wouldn't show your white teeth like that!"
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