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Updated: June 22, 2025
Bates, who had seen service, knew that men in time of stress and danger acted just like the detective and his own employer. "By Jingo!" he muttered, beginning to assemble the empty coffee-cups on a tray. "Things is wakin' up here, an' no mistake!" Theydon was fortunate in finding a taxicab depositing a fare at a neighboring block.
Crawling under one of the blankets, Benson went to sleep again. “Hey, yo’, Marse Benson. It am mawnin’. Time yo’ was wakin’ up an’ movin’ erlong!” It was the voice of the same mulatto, calling down into the pit. Again the rays of the lantern illumined the darkness. Both bull-dogs displayed their ferocious muzzles over the edge of the pit.
A wakin' an' sleepin' HELL that's what it would be." "I'm going," said the distracted girl. "Ye'd take him from his wife an' her baby?" "He hates THEM! and I hate THIS! I tell you I'm going " "So ye'd break yer mother's heart an' his wife's just to satisfy yer own selfish pleasure?
I'm the ghost of Nebuchadnezzar's first wife and I want to know what you folks mean by wakin' me up." The three in the back bedroom looked at each other. "It's Captain Bangs!" cried Emily. "It's Obed!" exclaimed Thankful. "He's found it," shouted Kendrick. "Come on." The captain was not in the kitchen when they got there. He had gone out of doors, so Imogene said.
" All the same when that furriner chap looks up in Tresidder's kitchen an' says 'My name is Zebedee Minards, you might ha' blown me down wi' a puff; an' says I to mysel', wakin' up last night an' thinkin' 'I'll ax a question of Old Zeb when I sees en, blest if I don't." "Then why in thunder don't 'ee make haste an' do it?"
Butch was fast, but the young feller was faster. He had Butch by the wrist before the gun came clear just gave a little twist and there he stood with the gun in his hand pointin' into Butch's face, and Butch sittin' there like a feller in a trance or wakin' up out of a bad dream. "Then he gets up, slow and dignified, though he had enough liquor in him to float a ship.
I see great good fortune before you. I see a grand an' handsome husband at your side, and a fine house to live in. I see stairs, an' carpets, an' horses, an' hounds, an' yourself, with jewels in your white little ears, an' silks, an' satins on your purty figure. That's a wakin' dhrame I had, an' you may all mark my words, if it doesn't come out thrue; it's on the leaf, an' the leaf was open to me.
I's bin wakin' a good while, larfin' fit to bu'st my sides. De purfesser's been a-goin' on like a mad renoceros for more'n an hour. He's arter suthin', which he can't ketch. Listen! You hear 'im goin' round an' round on his tip-toes. Dere goes anoder chair. I only hope he won't smash de lamp an' set de house a-fire." "Vell, vell; I've missed him zee tence time. Nevair mind.
His head sank heavily in his hands as his heart grew intolerably sad with the lack he felt in all the world, most of all in himself. He had often tried to tell himself what made the world so dully repellant, but he never could get beyond, "'Tis as though I was aslape an' yet not quite aslape just half wakin', an' somethin' lovely is goin' on in the next room, an' I can't wake up to see what 'tis.
"Ef dat ar ain't de beatenest!" At length Aunt Viney tiptoed heavily into the kitchen with the joyful announcement that Sabella, fully restored to consciousness, was sleeping naturally and quietly. "When she wakin she be all right an' hongry, de honey lamb!
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