CHAPTER XXVII THE LAST ACT OF THE DRAMA I overslept, next morning, so outrageously that it was not until I had got a seat in a subway express that I had time to open my paper.

And I awoke, and found that I had overslept myself and that the nine o'clock parade, which I was due to attend, was already falling in outside.

But how's the day?I fear, my little Boy, We've overslept ourselves.

"I was afraid you would oversleep.

Still heavy with lees of slumber, his wits occupied themselves sluggishly with questions concerning the enervation that oppressed him, the reason for his oversleeping, why he had not been called.

I shall not even oversleep.

Then Don Lopez, smiling from ear to ear, begs us (as I learnt afterwards) to pardon him for keeping us waiting, which had not happened, he assures us, if we had not suffered him to oversleep himself.

The only thing needed to complete the illusion is the appearance of the old dog, which the man who had so grievously overslept himself was sure would have recognized him, had he put in his appearance.

Major Nikolai was about to throw Brown into jail "for the duration of the war" when the young man answered: "But, Major, I overslept.

A watch and chain, for instance, he must have, so as not to oversleep himself in the morning and be late at the office; money for a pipe and tobacco also, such as the other young clerks in the town always had.

Overslept my self.

You needn't be afraid of oversleeping, for I'm sitting here by the fire keeping watch.

The reader will easily imagine I did not oversleep myself the following morning.

On the morning succeeding my conference with the jailor, it so happened, whether I overslept myself, or the turnkey went his round earlier than usual, that I was roused from my sleep by the noise he made in opening the cell next to my own; and though I exerted the utmost diligence, yet having to grope for my materials in the dark, I was unable to fasten the chain to the staple, before he entered, as usual, with his lantern.

If I had not lost my way in consequence of the hail-storm on the preceding night, or if I had not so greatly overslept myself this very morning, I must almost infallibly have fallen into the hands of these infernal blood-hunters.

I heartily hoped they might all oversleep themselves that morning.

he shouted, at the top of his voice, to a negro girl, who was gathering kindling-wood among the chips of a ship-yard, "scamper over to neighbour Homespun's, and rattle away at his bed-room windows: the man has overslept himself it is not common to hear seven o'clock strike, and the thirsty tailor not appear for his bitters.

In winter I go to bed at nine, and I rise, if I do not oversleep myself, at four, or between four and five.

It was warm in the night and for the first time during the journey I overslept myself by more than an hour; then we were slow with foot gear; then, pulling with all our might (for our lives) we could scarcely advance at rate of a mile an hour; then it grew thick and three times we had to get out of harness to search for tracks.

So, lest I should oversleep, until three o'clock I paced the cell, and then, with all the terrors of a burglar, tiptoed down the stairs.

He resolved not to be so foolish again, and for a time did better; but in a few days he had again overslept.

But that night he had overslept, and they had passed him in the early hours of morning.

He doesn't generally oversleep himself like this.

"I overslept myself this morning," I remarked apologetically, "and I see that I am putting you to some trouble.

"I am afraid we shall oversleep ourselves.