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Updated: May 22, 2025
And now, even though the industrious colonists had provided themselves with tools, these treasures would find their use. There was no want of space in the store-rooms of Granite House, but that daytime would not allow them to stow away the whole.
But I stuck to it, working in the daytime and studying evenings and holidays till at last I began to get a foothold, and then when I had enough to put by to risk it I went to Paris." Her voice was as matter of fact as if she were describing a visit to the family butcher shop. But I visualized the busy, plucky years with their reward of Paris as if I had been a spectator of them.
In the daytime I talked to costermongers, street venders, the unemployed, and the corner loafers. One night I put my plain clothes on and spent the night with the "wharf rats" on the banks of the Thames. For seven days and for seven nights I continuously told that simple story told it in few words, closing always with an appeal for a change of life.
On the signboard, made of a long narrow plank, figured, in black letters the word: MERCERY. And on one of the panes of glass in the door was written, in red, the name of a woman: Therese Raquin. To right and left were deep show cases, lined with blue paper. During the daytime the eye could only distinguish the display of goods, in a soft, obscured light.
Do not imagine, however, that we have been living like monastics, disdaining all worldly distractions: the governor is not the man to lead the existence of a Carthusian monk. He is as much on horseback as on foot. In the daytime we make hunting excursions; he visits his "god-children" and my estates: you may rely upon it, I have got an active steward in him!
"It don't improve my night's rest," I answered somewhat surlily I fear. "I came down here for peace and quiet. Can't you do it in the daytime?" "Daytime!" he laughed. "Why it has been daytime for the last two hours. Never mind, I'll go round the other side." He disappeared round the corner, and set to work at the back, where he woke up the dog.
"Fifty cents," said the Indian. "For all?" I asked. "No. No. For one. Four bean two dollar." We both exclaimed at this, for it was double the regular price of the beans. "All right," said Maiden's Heart. "Twenty-five cents, daytime. Fifty cents, night." We looked at each other, and concluded to pay the price and depart. I gave him two dollars, and asked him to open the gate and let us out.
This fine-looking fellow was introduced, accompanied by five of his principal advisers. He shortly told me his story. He had been four nights on the road, as he had not dared to travel by day, fearing the Baris: thus, in the dark, he had frequently wandered from the track. In the daytime he had slept in the concealment of forests.
Is it not strange that our dreams often present to us, in our own despite, the vivid, photographic pictures struck by sleep from the dim, unconscious negative of our waking judgment, which we refuse to recognize as verities in the light of our open-eyed, daytime responsibility?
In what he himself regarded as his spare hours, that is to say, the daytime hours wherein the ordinary man labors, Neddy was a highly skilled craftsman, whose only failing was a tendency to be late in the morning and to fall ill about the festive seasons of the year. He made lenses, and, in spite of the failing, his work had been deemed to be of national importance, as indeed it was.
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