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But a very quiet time was not just the holiday that Judith had planned to have, and after a long night's sleep and a peaceful day devoted to letter-writing she was lively as a cricket and ready for anything. Christmas shopping absorbed the first two days: Aunt Nell found it tiring, but to Judith the shops all glittering with Yuletide gaiety were wholly fascinating.
I think we had better do the greater part of our work by night, and rest and sleep during the heat of the day. We shall do more, besides escaping notice in case there should be any scouts, either white or red, or marauding parties prowling about, as is sometimes the case near the border."
Her voice went on, velvety in his ear: "It was the moonlight, sweetheart, coming on your face." Little Jon burbled into her nightgown "You said it was beautiful. Oh!" "Not to sleep in, Jon. Who let it in? Did you draw the curtains?" "I wanted to see the time; I I looked out, I I heard you playing, Mum; I I ate my macaroon."
The baby, wrapped in a blue embroidered blanket, with only a round forehead and a small pink nose visible, was of that satisfactory variety entirely given to sleep. Zaidee and even Redge, adoring little sister and brother, had been allowed to hold him in their arms, so securely unstirring was their little burden.
Once Laka had been the joy of Achmet's heart, but, because she had no child, she was despised and forgotten. Was it not meet I should fly to her whose sorrow would hide my loneliness? And so it was I was hidden in the harem of Achmet. But miserable tongues may God wither them! told Achmet of my presence. And though I was free, and not a bondswoman, he broke upon my sleep...."
With some regret, I said farewell to sleep and stumbled out of doors, where my friends of yesterday evening were already up and doing. The eating, the dancing, the bagpipes they were all in violent activity, under the sober and passionless eye of morning. A gorgeous procession took place about midday.
And you think of him, as the children are slumbering once more in their own beds, and the watchful housewife tenderly pretends to sleep. Old Pendennis had no special labours or bills to encounter on the morrow, as he had no affection at home to soothe him.
And oh! indulge your foolish daughter, who troubles you with her weak nonsense; because what she has to say, is so affecting to her; and because, if she went to bed, instead of scribbling, she could not sleep.
He had been accustomed to watching and broken rest during the Prince's illness, and though he durst not pace up and down for fear of disturbing the sleeper nay, could hardly venture a movement he strained his eyes into the twilight, and told his beads fervently; but sleep hung on him like a spell, and even while sitting upright there were strange dreams before him, and one that he had had before, though with a variation.
His spirits during those few days were colossal, and he told me that he found it impossible to sleep, "for counting up his subscribers." With first-class contributors he got on very well, he said, but the extortioners and revilers bothered the very life out of him.
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