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Updated: May 22, 2025
When I turned in, the Wallingford was getting along at the rate of about five miles the hour; the wind having freshened, and come out at the westward, a quarter that just enabled her to lay her course. The reader will easily imagine I did not oversleep myself the following morning.
Sunny Boy remembered that Daddy had told him all country folk "rose with the chickens," and upon inquiry he had learned that the chickens rose very early indeed almost as soon as the sun. Sunny Boy thought it would be dreadful if he and Mother should oversleep their first morning at the farm and come downstairs to find the chickens up and the farmer people laughing at them.
Then she saw the letter in Nan's hand. "Is that for Gray?" "Yes," Nan replied. "Come along then. I expect he's been waiting for me for half an hour now and believe me, he's just as kind and considerate as a wild bull when we keep him waiting. I overslept this morning." It was then after ten o'clock, and Nan wondered how one could "oversleep" so late.
He drove slowly towards La Californie, reluctant to put an end to the evening, and intensely conscious of the girl beside him, wrapped in her velvet coat, warm and glowing in the darkness. "I'm sure we ought to have left sooner," she said, a little conscience-stricken, "only it was so heavenly! I had the bad luck to oversleep this morning; it would be dreadful to repeat the offence."
True, an admission had been wrung from her; and even without such an admission it was clear that she had a tender feeling for Swithin. How to extinguish that romantic folly it now became his object to consider. Swithin's midnight excursion to the tower in the cause of science led him to oversleep himself, and when the brother and sister met at breakfast in the morning he did not appear.
The women must wake very early in the morning and open the windows as soon as it is light; otherwise their absent husbands will oversleep themselves. The women may not oil their hair, or the men will slip. The women may neither sleep nor doze by day, or the men will be drowsy on the march.
The men were here three hours ago for their orders. I thought it a pity to disturb your peaceful dreams, so I gave them myself and sent them off." I was angrier than ever. A nice beginning I had made. And was that girl laughing at me? "I expected to be called in time, certainly," I said stiffly. "I am not accustomed to oversleep myself. I promise it will not occur again."
I will show you how to become rich, said the Evil One. 'Meet me here early to-morrow morning and bring a good strong team with you. I will help you get the gold. "The boy went home with a glad heart. You may be sure he did not oversleep the next morning. Before it was light, he had harnessed four oxen belonging to his master, and started for the summit of the mountain.
Beth had warned her that she would be tired to death when she got in, and had better snatch some repose in preparation for the night. "But if I oversleep myself and am not on the look-out for you when you come, what will you do?" Charlotte objected. "Leave that to me," said Beth. And Charlotte did accordingly with perfect confidence.
"Yes, by all means," answered Harry, "for I have somehow managed to oversleep myself again, and am ravenously hungry. But, Arima, what means this? How do I come to be here? And what town is that which I see yonder at the far end of the lake?"
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