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Updated: June 29, 2025
She superintended the laying of the floor of the sleeping-tent lengthwise, So that it would be easier to sweep, and suggested a new arrangement of the cots that would afford all the men an equal share of night breeze. She left the wagon, and climbing on the newly erected dining-table, advised with the cook in placing his stove, table, and kitchen utensils.
The experience was novel but I refrain. I have more important matters to relate. I was given a bunk at the extreme end of the long sleeping-tent, and turned in with the rest. I expected to sleep, but on finding that I could catch a sight of the sick tent from under the canvas, I experienced such fascination in watching this forbidden spot that midnight came before I had closed my eyes.
He moved his lips expectantly, as if only a sense of politeness prevented him from smacking them. Androvsky went towards the sleeping-tent, where Domini, who had been into the city, was washing her hands. "The priest has called," he said. "I have asked him to dejeuner." She looked at him with frank astonishment in her dark eyes. "You Boris!" "Yes, I. Why not?" "I don't know.
The sleeping-tent was nearly filled by the bed it contained; and this, lifted a few inches above the ground on pole supports, was of browse or brush and straw, covered with blankets. A square canopy of mosquito-netting protected it. The cooking-tent had a foundation of logs and a canvas top. The floor was of pure white sand.
When he had gone into the sleeping-tent, he desired his attendants to leave him; he signed Mena to divest him of his ornaments and his arms, and called to him his youngest sons, who were waiting respectfully at the door of the tent. Why did I desire you to accompany me?" he asked them gravely. Both were silent, and he repeated his question.
Aside from the furnace and what was going on there, there was little else but a sleeping-tent, a cooking-tent, and the small one I had come on first, which, without the least doubt, contained the sick man. This last tent was of a peculiar construction and showed the primitive nature of everything at this height. It consisted simply of a cloth thrown over a thing like a trapeze.
I went to the gangway to receive them so that we might be out of ear-shot of Miss Onslow, who was sitting in the after-end of her sleeping-tent, reading and, even before the boat got alongside, I could see, by the sober faces of those in her, that something serious was the matter. O'Gorman boarded the brig alone, leaving his two companions in the boat alongside.
Paul hung my hammock in a new place to-day, just behind the girls' sleeping-tent. Now I know that Polly is in trouble, and that you are displeased with her. What I want to ask, if I may, is, how much you know; for I overheard a great deal myself- -enough to feel that Polly deserves a hearing. 'I overheard nothing, replied Mrs. Winship.
The light moved away over the dunes and dropped down towards the city. Then Domini hurried across the sand to the sleeping-tent.
Polly climbed into the sky-parlour to write a long letter to her mother, and Laura was left to solitude in the sleeping-tent.
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