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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.
Is it true, then, that Gaston must go to jail? Ah! Mon Dieu!" "Eh bien, my girl! It will not kill him, Sapristi! He will be a better soldier for it." "Be merciful," I pleaded. "Eh bien! Eh bien!" he retorted. "Eh bien!" And cleared his throat. "Forgive them," I insisted. "They overslept. I don't want Suzette to marry a jail-bird." Again he scratched his head and frowned. Suzette was in tears.
He had accused himself as usual on his knees of his own remissions, of making an unnecessarily loud noise in drinking, of intoning a wrong antiphon as cantor, of spilling crumbs in the refectory; and then leaned back on his heels well content with the insignificance of his list, to listen with a discreet complacency to old Dom Adrian, who had overslept himself once, spilled his beer twice, criticised his superior, and talked aloud to himself four times during the Greater Silence, and who now mumbled out his crimes hastily and unconcernedly.
The two trombonists were now on their feet, shaking from head to foot while they saluted their general, whose ever-approaching stride struck fresh agony to their hearts. He was roaring: "Canailles! Imbéciles! A month of prison!" and "Sacré bon Dieu's!" were all jumbled together. "Overslept! Overslept, did you?" he bellowed. "In a château, I'll wager. Parbleu! Where then? Out with it!"
"We oughtn't to find Sunday dull," said Una sleepily, trying to pull her drowsy wits together with an uneasy conviction that they had overslept. "But we DO, you know," said Faith candidly. "Mary Vance says most Sundays are so dull she could hang herself." "We ought to like Sunday better than Mary Vance," said Una remorsefully. "We're the minister's children."
Norma, a vision of cloudy dark tumbled hair and beautiful sleepy blue eyes, half-strangled the older woman in a rapturous embrace, and explained that she had come home the night before, and eaten the chicken stew, and perhaps overslept at any rate would love some coffee.
"I called for both of them," Roy answered, grinning, "but it seems they'd overslept themselves, and they said they'd be along later." "Well, if it's very much later," said Grace grimly, "they might as well go back to bed again. That train isn't going to wait." "Oh, they'll be here all right," Roy assured her confidently.
"He has overslept himself for once," quoth Doctor Grim gruffly; "a strange thing, too, for a man whose victuals and drink are so light as the schoolmaster's. The fiend take me if I thought he had mortal mould enough in him ever to go to sleep at all; though he is but a kind of dream-stuff in his widest-awake state. Hannah, you bronze jade, call the schoolmaster to come to breakfast."
She is just the kind soul to be up and out to fetch us milk for an early first breakfast; but she may have overslept herself. Chillon smiled. 'You were right, Janet', about not going to bed last night; we might have missed the morning. 'I hate sleep: I hate anything that robs me of my will, she replied. 'You'd be glad of your doses of sleep if you had to work and study.
The following morning, Toad, who had overslept himself as usual, came down to breakfast disgracefully late, and found on the table a certain quantity of egg-shells, some fragments of cold and leathery toast, a coffee-pot three-fourths empty, and really very little else; which did not tend to improve his temper, considering that, after all, it was his own house.
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