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Updated: June 10, 2025
John he chanced to bear my own name had been so long subject to night alarms, partly from cats careering in the back yard, and his mistress demanding to know, through the tube, if he heard them; partly, also, from frequent ringing of the night-bell, by persons who urgently wanted "Dr McTougall," that he had become callous in his nervous system, and did much of his night-work as a semi-somnambulist.
Of late their outbreaks have not been confined to night-work, but take place in open daylight, coram populo et police.
He is first sent out for a quarter of a day; then after a week or two for half a day; then for a whole day; and when accustomed to that he is considered fit for night-work. The horses of the Compagnie Générale remain in the stable one day out of every three.
This is usually night-work, and all the dark hours will be wasted in grinding down a cubic foot of stone. The late M. Bonnat had probably read Mr.
The trees stood still and shadowy as clouds, but breathing out mysterious odours. The stars overhead, half-molten away in the ghostly light that would not go, were yet busy at their night-work, ministering to the dark sides of the other worlds. There was no moon.
Hearken to me, thou most ignorant of all animals, but, for that very reason, thou stoutest of confidants, and bravest of soldiers, I will tell thee the very riddle of this night-work, and yet, even then I doubt if thou canst understand me." "It is my present duty to try to comprehend your Valour," said the Varangian "I would say your policy, since you condescend to expound it to me.
The soldiers were silent, no sound could be heard, but the glistening of their bayonets could be seen. The passer-by surprised, drew nearer. One of the sentinels thrust him rudely back, crying out, "Be off." Like the sergents de ville at the Prefecture of Police, the workmen had been retained at the National Printing Office under plea of night-work.
You must not imagine, however, that all this night-work is performed in gross darkness. On the contrary. There is abundance of illumination; and by a pretty thought, each side illuminates the other.
This irregularity, the frequent night-work, the disorderly way of living consequent upon it, engender a multitude of physical and moral ills, especially early and unbridled sexual licence, upon which point all witnesses are unanimous.
His growth and strength came early; I remember noticing him first as a powerful fellow, not more than seventeen or eighteen years old, but already doing a man's work as a gravel-digger. When that work slackened after two or three years, he got employment not willingly, but because times were bad at night-work with the "ballast-train" on the railway. Exhausting if not brutalizing labour, that is.
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