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I am banking on that, after having thought the matter over. We won't be here, but the sheriff will, if I can get hold of him." Miss Elting agreed that the guide's plan was as good as could be devised, and promptly directed the girls to return to the hut and, if possible, sleep for the few remaining hours of the night. That morning the girls overslept.
I had overslept myself, a very uncommon accident with me, and had put him into one of his hateful humours. At breakfast, while eating his bread and cheese, I was set to watch the milk that stood on the fire to boil.
Two or three times I heard the cry of "Stop thief!" uttered by some small urchins for mischiefs sake, and once an old watchman, who had overslept himself in his box, suddenly starting out attempted to seize hold of me, fancying that he was about to capture a burglar, but I slipped away, leaving him sprawling in the dust and attempting to spring his rattle, and I ran on at redoubled speed, soon getting out of his sight round a corner.
Sophy overslept herself: her room was to the west; the morning beams did not reach its windows; and the cottage without children woke up to labour noiseless and still. So when at last she shook off sleep, and tossing her hair from her blue eyes, looked round and became conscious of the strange place, she still fancied the hour early.
If we are ever to get through rearranging the store you will have to curtail your morning naps." "I most sincerely beg your pardon. I never overslept so before. But I was out late last night, and passed through a most painful scene, that so disturbed me that I could not sleep till nearly morning, and I find to my great vexation that I have overslept. I promise you it shall not happen again."
"Old skinflint!" said the danseuse, who was crying, "will you let your own nephew be dishonored, the son of the man to whom you owe your fortune? for his name is Oscar Husson. Save him, or Titine will deny you forever!" "But how did he come here?" asked Cardot. "Don't you see that the reason he forgot to go for those papers was because he was drunk and overslept himself.
'Had a good sleep, Jimmy? she asked briskly. Then in a very different tone she said, as if to herself, 'My, how you do look like your father! I remembered that my father had been her little boy; she must often have come to wake him like this when he overslept. 'Here are your clean clothes, she went on, stroking my coverlid with her brown hand as she talked.
He had outwitted the colonel taught him a lesson let him see that he was not the only "hound in the pack," and, best of all, he had saved the boy from annoyance and possibly from disgrace. He was still striding up and down the room, when Harry, who had overslept himself as usual, came down to breakfast.
That idea, however, she had given up; it seemed to her that only one cow in the world could be called Bliros. Then she had determined to think no longer about Bliros or the names of the calves, and so had fallen asleep. What if she had overslept herself now! She hoped not, with all her heart, for she had heard Kjersti Hoel say that she did not like girls to lie abed late and dally in the morning.
She always offers me her lips, but to-day she turned away so that my mouth barely brushed her cheeks. 'Women's whims! I thought, and therefore let it pass. You can imagine how glad I should have been to hear something more about yesterday evening, but I made no objection when she wished to go to the chapel at once, because she had overslept the hour of mass.
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