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In the morning we both awoke and leaped out of bed at the same instant and ran and stripped aside the window-curtains; but we suffered a bitter disappointment again: it was already half past three in the afternoon. We dressed sullenly and in ill spirits, each accusing the other of oversleeping.
That was the important thing now. He wrestled with the problem for a long time in vain. He was afraid to go to bed for fear of oversleeping again, and decided to stay up until train-time. But at length drowsiness overcame him, and for the few remaining hours he dreamed lonesomely of an oval face and big, black, velvet eyes.
"Well," he said, "do you want to go to sleep, or will you come and talk business with me for a little while?" "Sleep!" Bannon echoed. "I've been oversleeping lately." The elevator was the place for the dinner, if only the mild weather that had followed the Christmas storm should continue on that Bannon, Pete, and Max were agreed.
"Exactly like a little woman, isn't she?" said Edward Coe, enchanted by the vision. "Exactly!" Olive Two agreed. "Nice little thing! But how tired and unwell she looks! They did well to bring her away." "Oh!" said Edward Coe, "she probably didn't sleep well because she was afraid of oversleeping herself. She looked perfectly all right yesterday."
The maid was Bess, the washerwoman's daughter; and as she had had one good scolding that morning for oversleeping herself, and another about noon for dawdling with her work, she took up the pail and set off home without delay. But though she held it steadily enough, the bucket shook, and the water spilled hither and thither.
In the morning we both awoke and leaped out of bed at the same instant and ran and stripped aside the window-curtains; but we suffered a bitter disappointment again: it was already half past three in the afternoon. We dressed sullenly and in ill spirits, each accusing the other of oversleeping.
Drabdump, there is just one point I should like to say a word about. You have listened so patiently, sir, to my lectures on the science of sciences that you will not refuse to hear the last. A good deal of importance has been attached to Mrs. Drabdump's oversleeping herself by half an hour.
Further discussion on this subject was prevented by Sawkins' arrival, nearly a quarter of an hour late. 'Oh, you 'ave come, then, sneered Crass. 'Thought p'raps you'd gorn for a 'oliday. Sawkins muttered something about oversleeping himself, and having hastily put on his apron, he went upstairs with Harlow. 'Now, let's see, Crass said, addressing Philpot.
Besides, what on earth should I confess, except being always late for prayers through oversleeping myself in the morning, and general uselessness?" "Oh, I daresay you might find something if you tried," suggested Morris. "Speak for yourself, please, Morris. To begin with your own account, there is the crime of sacrilege in using a chapel as a workshop.
"Search me, if you will, mynheer," she answered, opening the cloak, whereon, after a quick glance, he nodded and bade them enter, saying: "Mind, you are to come out by ten o'clock. You must not pass the night in that house, or we shall have the little Englishman oversleeping himself in the morning."
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