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What she had done and said and heard were all thought over again to the rhythmic click of her needles. And the results at the end of the evening were usually a finished comforter and a comfortable feeling. This night, however, the knitting lagged and the thoughts were unaccountably dissatisfying; she could not even settle down to a cat-nap with the habitual serenity.
And the closeness made me feel so drowsy that, to prevent myself from droppin' off to sleep, I've been obliged to keep on my feet, pacing fore and aft atween the main cabin skylight and the main riggin'. The watch have coiled theirselves away somewheres, and I don't doubt but what they're snatchin' a cat-nap and I haven't troubled to disturb 'em, sir, for the lookout on the fo'c's'le is keepin' his eyes skinned.
While he sat beside the delirious officer, Tom pondered that question. On the other side of the fire lay the prisoner. Triumph a horrible, cruel, menacing triumph rode in his eye and strutted in his straddling walk when he got up. His hour was coming. It was coming fast. Once Tom fell asleep for a cat-nap. He caught himself nodding, and with a jerk flung back his head and himself to wakefulness.
To tell the truth, he had been leaning back against the wall in a hard and straight-backed chair, of course taking a "cat-nap." But he awoke instantly and with all his senses alert. "All right, Frances all right, my girl," he said. "I'm with you. Hurrah! My old partner will be as glad to see me as I am to see him." But when the train rolled in there was some delay.
But I reckon it was more than a cat-nap, for when I waked up the stars was shining bright, the fog was all gone, and I was spinning down a big bend stern first. First I didn't know where I was; I thought I was dreaming; and when things began to come back to me they seemed to come up dim out of last week.
"I propose to have a few words to say about what it means in the country when a city fathead changes his mind about the train he'll take." He was looking past the cashier while he talked. He turned away and picked up his hat and coat from a chair. "I'll be going along to my house, I reckon. You'd better catch a cat-nap on the cot. I found it comfortable.
Clint would have liked to have buried his head in the pillow and gone back to sleep and slept until well, say five o'clock that afternoon. For by five o'clock the Claflin game would be over with. But even a five-minute cat-nap was denied him by restless nerves, and, after a moment or two, he put his legs out and sat up yawning, feeling strangely tired and listless.
"Now for the talk," said Fenger. But the telephone had sounded shrilly a moment before, and the omnipresent little Jap summoned Fenger. He was back in a minute, frowning. "It's Haynes. I'm sorry. I'm afraid it'll take a half hour of telephoning. Don't you want to take a cat-nap? Or a stroll down to the lake?" "Don't bother about me. I'll probably take a run outdoors." "Be back in half an hour."
Bartlett thinks this a corruption; but the resemblance of the fish, as seen in the water, to the ordinary portraits of the sun in almanacs and on tavern-signs seems to us enough to account for the name. A few phrases occur to us that have escaped Mr. Bartlett. A CARRY: portage. Passim. CAT-NAP: a short doze. New England. CHOWDER-HEAD: muddle-brain. New England.
"Lord, Jack," said he; "if ever we win out of this coil with a full day to spare, I mean to sleep the clock hands twice around at a stretch, I promise you. 'Twas but a catch, this cat-nap; no more than enough to leave a bad taste in the mouth." "Aye; but the taste may be washed out," said I. "I am for a dip in the river; what say you?"
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