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He provided a sumptuous tea, and added a fresh salad to it from the greengrocer's next door; but though he and Dolly waited and watched till long after the child's bed-time, taking occasional snatches of bread and butter, still Susan did not arrive. At length a postman entered the little shop with a noise which made Oliver's heart beat violently, and tossed a letter down upon the counter.
Now, how was she fallen! Yet Mr. and Mrs. Enderby received her kindly, and paid her as much attention as if she had been an ordinary visitor. When bed-time came she was taken, not to the pretty room she had occupied when last in the house, but to a neat little plain chamber which was to be henceforth her own.
We will talk it over before bed-time in my room." So they re-entered the city with hands clasped. It was a shock to the girl to find how far emotion had ebbed in others. The storm had ceased, and Mr. Emerson was easier about his son. Mr. Beebe had regained good humour, and Mr. Eager was already snubbing Miss Lavish.
Then it was suddenly cast aside, and an Indian warrior sprang from its cover, to his feet, with an agility, that bespoke how urgent he deemed the occasion. I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well. Shakspeare. A second glance sufficed to convince the whole of the startled party, that the young Pawnee, whom they had already encountered, again stood before them.
It was bed-time, and quoth Napier to his lordship, 'I tell you what it is, Bishop, I am na fou', but I'll be hanged if I haven't got two left legs. 'I see something odd about them, says his lordship. 'We'd better go to bed. Who the bishop was I do not know, but I'll answer for it he was one of the right sort. In 1846 I became an undergraduate of Trinity College, Cambridge.
We sat very still, waiting for nothing, expecting nothing; in the dull patience which always fell upon us about this hour the hour before bed-time, when nothing more was to be looked for but how best to meet another dreary day. "Maud, was that the click of the front gate swinging?" "No, I told Walter to lock it before he went to bed. Last night it disturbed my mother." Again silence.
And then, in the evening, after their early tea, while Aunt Jemima sat at her work at the table, the poor little infant was perched on a chair before the fire, and there required to sit till her bed-time, with her legs dangling till they ached again, while the tiny head became so heavy that it nodded this way and that in unconquerable drowsiness, and, on more occasions than one, the child rolled over and fell to the floor, like a ball.
A few, which were on glass vases, or porcelain, or metal ornaments, could be removed easily by soaking with a damp cloth; but most of them were on plaster casts, or polished wood, or fine book bindings and required the greatest care in handling. When bed-time came the task was not half finished, and Marjorie's shoulders were aching from close application to the work.
But if there might be doubt about the sensitiveness of a butterfly, there could be no doubt about his distinguishing marks. Where had they been all these years to be so ignorant? We did not collect moths; there were too many of them. And moths are nocturnal creatures. A hunter whose bed-time depends upon the whim of another is handicapped for the night-chase.
Alice's mother had to remind her several times it was her bed-time, too, she did so hate to leave her dear little play-fellows. By and by Mother Moon looked in at the window. Quick as a flash both squirrels jumped out of the cradle and ran to ask her the shortest way home. They found the window just a little open.
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