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Updated: June 22, 2025
Poor Junie would have to oversleep herself on Sunday, that was all. Susy stole into the passage, opened a door, and cast her light on the girl's face. "Junie! Dearest Junie, you must wake up!" Junie lay in the abandonment of youthful sleep; but at the sound of her name she sat up with the promptness of a grown person on whom domestic burdens have long weighed.
Hope Wayne opened the door, and Fanny Newt entered. Hope sat down with her back to the window. "I heard you come in," said Fanny, "and I did not hear you go out; so I knew you were still here. But I was afraid you would oversleep yourself, and miss the ball." Hope replied that she had not been sleeping. "Not sleeping, but sitting in the moonlight, all alone?" said Fanny. "How romantic!" "Is it?"
"Why not? it isn't Sunday till twelve," said Herbert. "No, but I should be apt to oversleep myself, and be dull and drowsy in church next morning." "Quite a saint!" muttered Enna, shrugging her shoulders and marching off to the other side of the room. "Suppose we go and select some flowers for our hair," said Lucy, looking at her watch.
This quite on general principle, it being one of the cook's small tyrannies to exact religious observance from her underling, and one of Olga's Sunday morning's indulgences to oversleep and avoid the mass. Olga took the accusation meekly and without reply, being occupied at that moment in standing between Katrina and the extra pats of butter.
Fraser tried to comfort her and straining metaphor to the utmost, said that if the finger of Providence had not made her oversleep herself she would undoubtedly have shared the same fate. The girl shook her head. "He shipped before the mast for the sake of being on the same ship as I was," she said, with quivering lip; "it is not every man who would have done that, and I I "
'Du tay voulay vou? asked Vanyusha, grinning. 'You're not one of us your gabble is not like our speech, you devil! the old man shouted at Vanyusha, showing the stumps of his teeth. 'A first offence must be forgiven, said Olenin playfully, drawing on his high boots. 'The first offence shall be forgiven, answered Eroshka, 'but if you oversleep another time you'll be fined a pail of chikhir.
"'Sam, said she, 'why don't you speak? and she shook me. "'Hullo, sais I, pretendin' to wake up, 'what's the matter! have I overslept myself? is it time to get up? and I put out my arm to rub my eyes, and lo and behold I exposed my coat sleeve. "'No, Sam, said she, 'you couldn't oversleep yourself, for you haven't slept at all, you ain't even ondressed. "'Ain't I, said I, 'are you sure?
That night he slept at the inn of the Three Desires which, as you may possibly know, lies but a gunshot beyond the boundary wall of the glebe of Lyntonhurst Old Church slept with an alarm clock at his head and every servant at the inn from the boots to the barmaid tipped a shilling to see that he did not oversleep himself.
Be a greater citizen than you are a surgeon; oversleep yourself to-morrow morning and leave a free field to the other doctors who if they cannot cure the king will cure France." "I!" exclaimed Pare. "I leave a man to die when I can cure him? No, no! were I to hang as an abettor of Calvin I shall go early to court.
Here our solicitude not to oversleep the determined time induces us in this imperfect sleep to compare the quick changes of imagined scenery with the parts of time or place, they would have taken up, had they real exigence; and that more frequently than in our waking hours; and hence the time appears longer to us: and I make no doubt, but the permitted time appears long to a man going to the gallows, as the fear of its quick lapse will make him think frequently about it.
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