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At this time the senior deacon was taken dangerously ill, and Silas and William, with others of the brethren, took turns at night-watching.
"True, lad, true," answered the Squire, good-humoredly; "I had intended to have forgotten Madam Yorke's existence. Well, Sir, what are you? what do you do, I mean, for a livelihood beside 'night-watching?" "I am a landscape-painter, Sir." "Umph!" grunted Carew, contemptuously; "you don't get fat on that pasture, I reckon. Have you never done any thing else?"
Barnes kept me waiting above an hour trying her dress on, and then I was so done up with night-watching and sewing that I thought I'd go for a walk, and after wiping her weary hot face she asked her mother-in-law if many people had been in the shop that morning. 'Well, yes, half a dozen or more, Mrs. Ede answered, and began to recount the different events of the morning. Mrs.
The night-watching had worn on him terribly. Bub had small comprehension of Charlie's condition; and finding, after a while, that Charlie did not talk with him, he took the post of sentinel, and did himself great credit. This seemed a long period to the little fellow, and after going the rounds of the port-hole, and seeing nothing to alarm him, he set about amusing himself.
A much more important point is that the prisoners at Northampton had been watched at night in order to keep their imps from coming in. This night-watching was a process that had never, so far as our records go, been used since the Hopkins alarm, of which it had been the characteristic feature.
The Flemings had had severe sickness among them more than once, but they had never called on their neighbours for help, and they could not bring themselves to do so now, even for night-watching. That she should trust Davie to any of the kind young fellows who night after night offered, their services, was to grannie impossible.
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