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"I am," said Miss Ives, buoyantly. "I don't know about Jim. At Jim's age every step counts, I suppose. These fashionable doctors habitually overeat and oversleep, I understand, and it makes them lazy." "I AM going in, Ann," said the doctor, with dignity, rising from the sand and pointedly addressing his wife.
He has never been so late before." "He'll be down, presently. He's probably overslept." "It's not your father's way to oversleep. Hadn't you better go up and see?" Thus forced, Ralph went leisurely up-stairs, intending only to rap upon the door, which was always closed. Perhaps, with the closed door between them, the first speech might be easier.
Thinking better of it, however, he gave her chin another tap, in lieu of that warmer familiarity, and stole away to bed. The Crisis of the Project and its Result There are not many men who lie abed too late, or oversleep themselves, on their wedding morning.
When maturity is complete this need abates. If this be correct, the phenomenon of second breath, so characteristic of adolescence, and one factor in the inebriate's propensity, is ontogenetic expression of a rhythm trait of a long racial period. Youth needs overexertion to compensate for underexertion, to undersleep in order to offset oversleep at times.
I will reward you handsomely, and you shall lack for nothing in the way of food. But you must don my livery, salute me in the fashion of Spain, hold my stirrup when I mount, and do everything that is required of a servant. Above all, you must not let me oversleep myself, for otherwise I shall be late in arriving at Granada.”
After supper he sat with us for ten minutes and said: "Do as you please, my friends, but I have to be up at three o'clock tomorrow morning. Excuse my leaving you." He kissed his wife tenderly, pressed my hand with warmth and gratitude, and made me promise that I would certainly come the following week. That he might not oversleep next morning, he went to spend the night in the lodge.
No, he must give it up, and the ferrets' breakfast-hour must be postponed. Possibly Harvey might be able to think of something. "Fed 'em?" inquired Harvey, when they met at breakfast. "No, I couldn't." "Why on earth not? You didn't oversleep yourself?" Renford poured his tale into his friend's shocked ears. "My hat!" said Harvey, when he had finished, "what on earth are we to do? They'll starve."
I've been calling and rapping here for a quarter of an hour! Good gracious, child what made you oversleep yourself so?" "I did not get to bed till very late," said Capitola, confusedly. "Well, well, my dear, make haste now, your uncle is none of the patientest, and he has been waiting breakfast for some time! Come, open the door and I will help you to dress, so that you may be ready sooner."
Already dim figures of the workers moved in the biting dawn and the masted forms of ships were coming out dimly, as far as the eye could reach down the old harbour. “Well,” Mills began again, “you may oversleep yourself.” This suggestion was made in a cheerful tone, just as we shook hands at the lower end of the Cannebière. He looked very burly as he walked away from me.
Bayard, and put the book under his arm. After tea, Ellen proposed to her father that they should all go to the Museum. Mr. Bayard acceded, and our hero was duly amazed at the drolleries perpetrated there. He had a good time; but it was so late when he went to bed, that he was a little fearful lest he should oversleep himself in the morning.
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