The homely interior, the good mother, the almost pathetic abandon of the sleeping childsurely no painter ever wrought better, nor, we may be sure, more devoutly!

Except for this meeting there was little to entertain the Colonel, and as soon as possible he and Honeyman walked away together, the Colonel returning to his hotel, where he found his friend James Binnie installed in his room in the best arm-chair, sleeping-cosily, but he woke up briskly when the Colonel entered.

This was another good sleeping-placeespecially this late in the evening, when no human beings moved about.