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The slumberers will slumber on, and the worriers will worry, the serious people will go ponderously about until some one shows them how ridiculous they are and how pitiful. Regret avails little still less remorse the one keeps alive the old offense, the other creates new offenses. The unrepentant sinner walks abroad. Unfortunately for us moralists he seems to be having a very good time.
And the car itself, the sleeper, with curtains drawn and lights turn'd down in the berths the slumberers, many of them women and children as on, on, on, we fly like lightning through the night how strangely sound and sweet they sleep! We should have made the run of 960 miles from Philadelphia to St.
Perhaps our savage ancestors, the earliest ancient Britons, who lived in hill-camps, high up, with their cattle round them, expected the attacks of their enemies always at a little before the dawn; so that, in time, the entire race learned to be wakeful then, lest the enemy should catch the slumberers, with flint-axe heads in the skull.
The town did not awake; or, if it did, the drowsy slumberers mistook the cry either for something frightful in a dream, or for the noise of witches, whose voices, at that period, were often heard to pass over the settlements or lonely cottages, as they rode with Satan through the air. The clergyman, therefore, hearing no symptoms of disturbance, uncovered his eyes and looked about him.
Wherefore, let us put our hopes in whatever the strong arm of the Beloved can bring about. We trust that in a time to come the slumberers will waken, and the heedless will be made aware, and the excluded will become initiates in the mysteries.
Although it was broad day in the other parts of the city, it was scarce dawn yet in Alsatia; and none of the sounds of industry or occupation were there heard, which had long before aroused the slumberers in any other quarter.
Nothing occurred during the night to disturb the slumberers, although occasional growls front panthers and chatterings of monkeys broke the silence; the more formidable beasts made no cries or hostile demonstration against the occupants of the bungalow. Sir Francis slept heavily, like an honest soldier overcome with fatigue.
But we do not take our enemy unawares. We would not assail slumberers. We are nineteenth century enough to fight fair. So now, look to yourselves!" During these few minutes the Osprey had reached the crags, and was alongside of the Laulie.
Taylor were already far on the road to the Swintons', James Westfall whipped up his horses and grew almost as thirsty for revenge as was his wife. Where the steer had been roasted, the powdered ashes were now cold white, and Mr. McLean, feeling through his dreams the change of dawn come over the air, sat up cautiously among the outdoor slumberers and waked his neighbor.
As calmly as if nothing had happened, he leant over the parapet and called to his men below. "Hold, there! Of what are you dreaming slumberers. Shoot me that fellow down." Their guns had been discharged, but one of them, who had now completed his reloading, levelled the carbine and fired.
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