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They might have quarrelled, or Mr d'Urberville might still be asleep, for he was not an early riser. She went into the back room, which was more especially her own apartment, and continued her sewing there. The lady lodger did not return, nor did the gentleman ring his bell.
"I see you are active and an early riser," said the hermit, with a nod of approval on seeing our hero. "I almost took you for a Krakatoa monster!" said Nigel, as they came out in front of the cavern and laid the canoe on the ground. "Why, you've got here one of the craft which we in England call a Rob Roy canoe."
"We took our only chance. Now it's up to them " He pointed to the wall and the teeming world which lay beyond it. Ali grinned wryly. "I note you left the what-you-call-it with Hovan." "He wanted one to experiment with," Dane replied. "I thought he'd earned it." "And now here comes what we've earned " Rip cut in as the hum of the riser came to their ears. "Should we take to cover?"
His conversation beguiled the tedium of the journey, so that all were surprised when the shadows deepened, and supper-time came. Selecting a favorable place they encamped for the night. Ebenezer Onthank was an early riser.
The Memnon might as well have been expected to smile. The earliest riser found him there; the latest night wanderer came upon him. When the day broke, after the falling of the dreadful night, the brave or the thirsty who ventured forth saw him at his post, silent, unastonished, unafraid. Once only the soldier had been seen to flinch.
"Miss Shelton is an early riser, too, but she never walks before breakfast. I wanted to find you alone, and to tell you that I was at Cliffe the day before yesterday." "At Cliffe?" And Bessie raised her clear eyes to his with such intense surprise that Richard laughed a little nervously. "I had some business there," he began awkwardly, "and I wanted to see your father.
What is your breakfast-hour?" "Half-past nine." "Is Mrs. Lecount an early riser?" "No. Lecount is lazy in the morning. I hate lazy women! If you were in my place, what should you say to her?" "I should say nothing," replied Captain Wragge. "I should return at once by the back way; I should let Mrs.
Washington bore with remarkable humility the criticisms of his manners that occasionally reached him. On Friday evenings Mrs. Washington received, and these affairs were known as her "drawing-rooms." They were over by nine o'clock which was bed-time in the Washington household; for Washington was an early riser, often getting up at four in the morning to start the day's work betimes.
Enclosing the bath all round the four sides are six steps, the sixth landing the bather on the Schola, or platform. The riser of the bottom steps varies in depth from 15in. to 11in., with a tread of 14in., the next riser is 14in. with a tread of 11in., as also is the next step and the one following. The step above has a rise of 12in., and a tread of 14in.
We are bidden to breakfast by Sir Richard, so we must push on, Dick, for his Majesty is an early riser, like myself. We are to have rare sport to-day.
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