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But when Mrs. Waters who was one of those born nurses whom everybody who has any sort of claim sends for in all emergency of sickness had to pack up her valise and go to Portland, where her niece's son was taken with rheumatic fever, and her niece had another bleeding at the lungs; when the days grew short, and the nights long, and the baby would not settle his relations with the solar system, but having begun his earthly career in the night-time, kept a dead reckoning accordingly, and continued to make the midnight hours his hours of demand and enterprise, the nice little systematic calculations by which the household had been regulated fell into hopeless uncertainties.
In moving, his cloak fell a little open, and I could see for a moment his white-fronted jacket and one of his epaulets. 'But none of this lasted long. In a minute he and his general had rolled up the map, shut the lantern, and turned to go down toward the shore. 'Then Uncle Job came to himself a bit. "Slipped across in the night-time to see how to put his men ashore," he said.
This afternoon it's the Pont du Gard; this evening the Druids' Tower." "This evening! The place is very lonely at night-time." "I know. But I must sketch it in moonlight. That's essential." "Remember Arles," warned Rivière. "You ought not to be alone." She nodded. "I know. But I have my work to do." Rivière felt uneasy over the matter.
That's all it was and I'm sorry I dragged you out." "Well," said the hollow-turner, "here be we six mile from home, and night-time, and not a hoss or four-footed creeping thing to our name. I say, we'll have a mossel and a drop o' summat to strengthen our nerves afore we vamp all the way back again? My throat's as dry as a kex. What d'ye say so's?"
At night-time he vowed, that as far as nature permitted it, he had satisfied the squire 'completely satisfied him, I mean, he said, to give me sound sleep. 'No doubt of it; no doubt of it, Richie. He won Julia's heart straight off, and Captain Bulsted's profound admiration. 'Now I know the man I've always been adoring since you were so high, Harry, said she.
The remaining eight men, however, refused to leave, although Flemming told them that they could all come down from the mountain at night-time, and be very easily stowed away on board, and that even if they were discovered the captain would be able to protect them, should the German manager make any demand for them to be delivered over to him.
So, with rage and bitterness, Thyrsis was gnawing out his soul in the night-time; distilling those fierce poisons which he was to pour into the next of his works the most terrible of them all, and the one which the world would never forgive him. There came another episode, to bring matters to a crisis.
I shall never again dare to stand before M. d'Asterac, who believes me to have passed the night in the silent voluptuousness of magic, which perhaps would have been better for me. Alas! I'll never more see Mosaide's niece, Mademoiselle Jahel, who at night-time woke me in my room in such a charming way. No doubt she will forget me.
"But, sir," answered Ratcliffe, "I am sure I couldna undertake to guide you to Muschat's Cairn in the night-time; I ken the place as mony does, in fair day-light, but how to find it by moonshine, amang sae mony crags and stanes, as like to each other as the collier to the deil, is mair than I can tell. I might as soon seek moonshine in water."
The doctor seemed expecially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by post, a day or two previous. 'And you, Miss Rose, said the doctor, turning to the young lady, 'I
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