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She had been brought in, three nights ago, drenched, bedraggled, chattering in a high fever; a case of acute pneumonia. Her delirium had kept Tilda who was preternaturally sharp for her nine years awake and curious during the better part of two night-watches. Thereafter, for a day and a night and half a day, the patient had lain somnolent, breathing hard, at intervals feebly conscious.
"Are you tired?" asked the Emperor. "Yes." "We both kept watch for an equal portion of the night, and I, who am so much older, feel quite wide awake." "It was only yesterday that you were saying that old soldiers were the best for night-watches." The Emperor nodded, and then said: "At your age while we are awake we live three times as fast as at mine, and so we need to sleep twice as long.
For aught we know, he may have run westward again in the night-watches, and be at this moment laughing in his sleeve at the manner in which he dodged a cruiser." "There is too much truth in what you say, Trysail; for if the Skimmer be now disposed to avoid us, he has certainly the means in his power." "Sail, ho!" cried the look-out on the main-top-gallant-yard. "Where-a-way?"
The earl's study was over the gate, and as he suffered much from gout and slept ill, he not unfrequently sought refuge in the night-watches with his friends Chaucer, Gower, and Shakspere. Richard drew rein at the last point whence the castle would have been visible in the daytime. All he saw was a moving light.
From them that kept their night-watches on the newly built pyramids, to the astronimers of to-day who are spending their lives in the study of the heavens. If every one of them learned men of the world, livin' and dead, if they all stood in rows in our door-yard in front of little Samantha Joe, they would have to bow their haughty heads before her, and put their finger on their lips.
Put thy hand on his head, but carefully, for he is very young, and men are unskilled in such matters. Very cautiously Holden touched with the tips of his fingers the downy head. 'He is of the faith, said Ameera; 'for lying here in the night-watches I whispered the call to prayer and the profession of faith into his ears. And it is most marvellous that he was born upon a Friday, as I was born.
It was striking, that in the hold which this argument of her doing no wrong to Mrs. Glasher had taken on her mind, her repugnance to the idea of Grandcourt's past had sunk into a subordinate feeling. The terror she had felt in the night-watches at overstepping the border of wickedness by doing what she had at first felt to be wrong, had dulled any emotions about his conduct.
But I can tell you that there is an official person who meditates and groans, meanwhile, in the night-watches, to think that in some atrocious moment of good-nature or sleepiness he left the door open and let that ungainly intruder in. Do you expect him to acknowledge the blunder, when you tax him with it? Never, he feels it too keenly.
Why, sir, that boy of yours will, one of these days, be sending your grandson to the salubrious city of Jeddo to spend his summer vacations. While now running rapidly away from the bitter coast of Patagonia, battling with the night-watches still cold as best we may; come under the lee of my white-jacket, reader, while I tell of the less painful sights to be seen in a frigate.
"Admit him, then, "said Thugut, waving his hand toward the door. Hudlitz limped out, and a few minutes later the announced visitor appeared on the threshold of the door. He was a little, slender man, with a stooping form, which had not been bent, however, by the burden of years, but by the burden of learning, of night-watches and untiring studies.
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