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As a matter of fact, he was too sleepy, and even the bravest hero might be cowed if he were fairly dropping for weariness. Stuart obediently sought the string-bed, and, a few seconds later, was fast asleep. It was daylight when he awoke. Breakfast was on the table and the boy did as much justice to the breakfast as he had to the supper.
We followed her through a network of lanes more evil-smelling than anything I ever imagined London can't compete with Calcutta in the way of odours until we reached a little hovel with nothing in it but a string-bed, a few cooking-pots, and two women.
Caste, it seems, has nothing to do with money, and these women, though as poor as it is possible to be, were thrice-born Brahmins, and received us with the most gracious, charming manners, inviting us to sit on the string-bed while they stood before us with meekly folded hands.
A doolie is a kind of string-bed hung on a pole, with a covering to keep off the sun. It is carried by four men, and two others run alongside to relieve their companions at intervals. I had sixteen miles to travel in this thing. I looked at Boggley very doubtfully, and he tried to encourage me. You will be there in no time."
The food was good and plentiful, and when Stuart had stowed away all he could hold, drowsiness came over him, and his head began to nod. "When do we go to bed?" he asked with a yawn. The fisherman motioned to a string-bed in the corner. "Whenever the young Senor wishes," was the reply. "And you?" "Did you not hear Senor Cecil say that I was to be sure you did not get lost?" He smiled.
String-bed. "Why was the pause prolonged, but that singing should issue thence? Why rushed the discords in, but that harmony should be prized!" Browning. Quita Lenox lay back in a long low chair, lost in thought, her hands clasped behind her head, the folds of her dull-blue tea-gown trailing on the carpet.
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