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Their ignorance gave them one more glad hour; and as it was to be their last hour on the island, let us rejoice that there were sixty glad minutes in it. They sang and danced in their night-gowns.
A white lace mantilla, Dios de mi alma! A black one for the visits. And the night-gowns like cobwebs. The petticoats!" She stopped abruptly. "And the smocks?" cried her listeners, excitedly. "The smocks? They are more beautiful than Blandina's? They were pack in rose-leaves " "Ay! yi! yi! yi!" The old woman dropped her head on her breast and waved her arms. She was a study for despair.
With the same cleverness that enabled them to win money on board they obtained places in the boats with the women. In the boat with the gamblers were women in their night-gowns and women in evening dress. None of the boats were properly equipped with food, but all had enough bread and water to keep the rescued from starving until the expected arrival of help.
Orders came to arrest them both, and confine them in a small room over the council-chamber. They had "eggs, bread, wine from the king's cellar, their breviaries, their night-gowns, a palliasse, and a mattress," brought to them there; and they were kept under ocular supervision for four and twenty hours.
It was one of her own night-gowns. I glanced uneasily towards the bed. Its daintiness frightened me, used as I was to the housekeeping coarse if clean of Mrs. Trapp. "Your prayers first," she whispered. "Don't you know any?" She eyed me anxiously again. "But you are a good boy? Surely you are a good boy? Don't boys say their prayers? They ought to."
He had a fellow-feeling for her attachment to an old toy, and yet Robin's will was law to him. "Couldn't we make a coffin, and pretend the body was inside?" he suggested. "No, we couldn't," said Robin. "I wouldn't play the 'Dead March' after an empty candle-box. It's a great shame, and I promised she should be chaplain in one of my night-gowns, too."
" And thin told him that I felt better; but as we marched down through the crowd and saw the fright of the men, and the women screaming in their night-gowns at the windows, faith, I well-nigh choked." "Have you spoken to Ryan about this absurd suspicion, O'Grady?" "I spoke to him, but I might as well have spoke to a brick wall. Divil a thing could I get out of him.
"Then we put our night-gowns over our dresses, and were laid peacefully in bed when Betsey came up, earlier than usual; for it was evident that Miss Cotton felt a little suspicious at our sudden weariness. "For half an hour we lay laughing and whispering, as we waited for the signal from Sally.
Yes, I see they are all in the wash-tub now; but they were there this morning, and when I heard you say you had put the child into one of our baby's night-gowns because it had no clean ones of its own, I knew that you were lying, and that you had done this on purpose." The woman was silent a moment and then burst out, "You are a greater fool than ever I thought you!
Better than all Galenicus. SCENE IV. Draws off to Bellemante's Chamber, discovers Elaria, Bellemante and Mopsophil in Night-Gowns. Mop. You have your Lessons, stand to it bravely, and the Town's our own, Madam. Enter Doctor softly. Doct. Ha, not in Bed! this gives me mortal Fears. Bell. Doct. Bell. Doct. Bell.
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