bedclose

Updated: July 20, 2026

I'll bunk here on the sofy, an' to-morror we'll see what's to be done." Another pause. "Oh, you won't run off 'ith anythin'? I s'pose not. But duty is duty, as I said afore, and I must mind orders. 'Stick by till you git a receipter, sez he. 'I will, sez I, an' I must. Never mind about bedclose. I c'n sleep jest ez I be. You jest go up-stairs. I'll make myself 't home."

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859