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"Oh, yes," Burnamy laughed, nervously: "I came near oversleeping, and getting off to sea without knowing it; and I rushed out to save myself, and so " He began to gather up his belongings while he followed the movements of Mr. Triscoe with a wistful eye.
This circumstance, however, had not aroused any very serious alarm in the breast of the ex-Lieutenant, who, remembering the incident of the night before, when the young lady had come on deck after the accident to the brig, thought it quite probable that, in consequence of her rest being so rudely broken, she was now oversleeping herself.
Meanwhile, the local carpenter gave him plenty of planing to do, with which he managed to pay his way; and as he had to rise before five every morning to ring the first bell, he was under no danger of oversleeping himself.
Both the world of fashion and the Court of Chancery are things of precedent and usage: oversleeping Rip Van Winkles who have played at strange games through a deal of thundery weather; sleeping beauties whom the knight will wake one day, when all the stopped spits in the kitchen shall begin to turn prodigiously! It is not a large world.
She and granp were up early on that important morning indeed, there was little likelihood of any one's oversleeping on that day, and so well did they work that by the time Jessie went up to know what her grandmother would like for dinner, the greater part of their tasks were done and grandfather had already started for Norton.
"Oh, yes," Burnamy laughed, nervously: "I came near oversleeping, and getting off to sea without knowing it; and I rushed out to save myself, and so " He began to gather up his belongings while he followed the movements of Mr. Triscoe with a wistful eye.
It pounces upon the innocent but not unsuspicious wayfarer in the form of nosebleed, short wind, earache, balky watches, digestive troubles, sleeplessness and oversleeping. As guide one day for the wife of a well-known geologist, I secured a new idea regarding altitude.
"What d'ye mean, what's biting me?" Abe rejoined, and Morris blushed in the consciousness of his oversleeping that morning by more than half an hour. "Say, lookyhere, Abe," he cried.
"I was up early enough on the following morning, no such thing as oversleeping one's-self when there was a prospect of pleasure in view.
"We don't want to wake up at four o'clock in the afternoon and find that we have missed the play, after coming all this way to see it." "Oh! that will be all right," answered the old fellow. "You won't get much chance of oversleeping yourself.
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