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It would interest you as well as me to note little points of manners that are to be gathered from the three books. I have not time to write much more, but will tell you two or three that have struck me. If you read them, as I still hope you may, you will see what early risers they all are, even the wicked Mr.
He softly opened the windows, to let in the morning breeze and the bird-songs of the early risers outside, then threw himself upon the couch, and almost instantly was sound asleep. Two hours later, before the household was astir, Ellen came down.
But she drew him hurriedly within the door, and on to an inner chamber, where lay his patient, so guarded that he never once saw her face. Before the earliest risers were called to the long breakfast hall there echoed the cry of a little child in the southern cottages a girl baby that opened its eyes first in an atmosphere of secrecy and mystery. Sixteen years had gone by.
He began to pace the deck mechanically, falling in with the other early risers who were out for a breath of morning air, striving to adjust himself to this new state of affairs.
You see we are early risers," replied Miss Elting. The lads needed no urging. They hopped to the after deck of the houseboat. But no sooner had they come aboard than they perceived that something was amiss. George glanced at Harriet inquiringly. "What's the matter with you girls, this morning?" he asked lamely. "We had considerable excitement here last night.
If a leg was missing, too, there wasn't much of Jim left, was there?" Mary giggled, and Eliza seized the egg again; so Trenholme ran to his sitting-room. Within half an hour he was passing through the High Street, bidding an affable "Good morning" to such early risers as he met, and evidently well content with himself and the world in general.
Of sleep before midnight. Light unfavorable to sleep. Quantity. Infants need to sleep nearly the whole time. Number of hours required for sleep. Opinions of eminent men. The author's own opinion. Statements of Macnish. Estimates on the loss of time by over-sleeping. Hint to young mothers. All children naturally early risers. Evils of sitting up late at night. Excitements in the evening.
The hour at which the alarm-clock should be set to detonate was one of our few acrimonious subjects of argument: I have even known it upset a discussion on Woman. But the early risers had their way, and the clock continued to be set for half an hour in front of Réveillé.
So he screeched, and screeched, all he could; and by the greatest chance in life, ma'am, old Mr. Eden was just going down the hill to fetch his morning walk." "Ay," interrupted Mrs. Theresa, "friend Ephraim is one of your early risers." "Well," said Marianne, impatiently. "So, ma'am, hearing the screech, he turns and sees the sweep; and at once he understands the matter "
But is it not written how the hussy Appearance wears a painted face, justly open to interrogation? how there stands a summit from which a man shall see yet more sharply than his most admired authors, above referred to? Hence, look down. The Dabney House felt the pluckings first. They were Nobodies there; and by that token they were early risers. She was fluttered to-day, was Mrs.
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