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I grew impatient; and, feeling a little provoked by the inexplicable somnolency of the owner of the cabin, I determined to try whether my voice might not rouse him. "Ho! house, there!" I shouted, though not loudly; "ho! holloa! any one within?" Again the figure moved but still stirred not from the seat!
Having succeeded that morning in escaping from his prison by a prodigious effort of cunning, audacity, and skill, he had run to the hotel where he had left Djalma; there he had learned that a man and woman, of an advanced age, and most respectable appearance, calling themselves relations of the young Indian, had asked to see him and that, alarmed at the dangerous state of somnolency in which he seemed to be plunged, they had taken him home in their carriage, in order to pay him the necessary attention.
I had always a ready soporific at hand. It was a repeating and re-repeating of a pious little ode by a late fashionable poet. It seldom failed to produce somnolency at about the twelfth or thirteenth repetition.
It relieved him somewhat to break down as he spoke of that scene.... But he was so weak and weary he could not sit up much, and lay on the couch nearly all the time in a kind of uneasy somnolency, not wishing to be read to even, not able to attend or fix his thoughts at all.
It was by a great effort that Andy kept himself awake, for his potations, added to his nocturnal excursion, tended towards somnolency; but the desire of escape, and fear of a discovery and its consequences, prevailed over the ordinary tendency of nature, and he remained awake, watching every sound.
Renney shook off her somnolency and shook her shoulders, a little business shake, admonitory to herself to keep cool; and Fleda came to the consciousness that some very disagreeable chills were making their way over her. "Are you warm enough?" said Mr. Carleton, suddenly, turning to her. "Not quite," said Fleda, hesitating; "I feel the cold a little. Please don't, Mr.
Renney shook off her somnolency and shook her shoulders, a little business shake, admonitory to herself to keep cool; and Fleda came to the consciousness that some very disagreeable chills were making their way over her. "Are you warm enough?" said Mr. Carleton suddenly, turning to her. "Not quite," said Fleda hesitating, "I feel the cold a little. Please don't, Mr. Carleton!
True, and at the last Review, the 'march past' was performed before a mounted generalissimo profoundly asleep, head on breast. Our English military 'moving' may now be likened to Somnolency on Horseback. 'Oh, come, no rancour, said the colonel; 'you know he's a kind old boy at heart; nowhere a more affectionate man alive! 'So the sycophants are sure of posts! 'Come, I say!
By a desperate effort I threw the pillow on the floor, and, too exhausted to feel annoyed by the burning feathers, I sank into a state of somnolency. How long I lay, I do not exactly know; but I was roused from my lethargy by the neighbors, who, alarmed by the smell of fire, came to my room to ascertain the cause.
"Sir," said Father Ned, "you missed an amusing story, in consequence of your somnolency." "Though I missed the story," replied the stranger, "I was happy enough to hear your friend's critique upon the dog." Father Ned seemed embarrassed; the curate, on the contrary, exclaimed with triumph "but wasn't I right, sir?" "Perfectly," said the stranger; "the moral you applied was excellent."
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