With another prayer, this time uttered shiveringly, for the soul of the pedlar, she nerved herself to get into bed again, and lay there till morning with her child against her heart; gazing with staring, sleepless eyes at the door which divided her from that awful room; keeping surely the most terrible vigil that ever woman kept.

Steve and Bandy-legs, ready to withdraw from the circle, and resume their outside vigil, stayed their departure for a brief period in order to satisfy their curiosity.

" "Then fain would I share thy vigil awhile.

When John Corbett and Rance Belmont went out into the kitchen, Maggie Corbett was chopping up potatoes in the frying-pan with a baking-powder can, looking as fresh and rested as if she had been asleep all night, instead of holding a lonely vigil beside a stovepipe-hole.

" No one can tell in what prehistoric age the succession of murdering and murdered priests first began that vigil for their lives.

" Mrs. Silk sniffed and looked up the alley, whereat two neighbours who happened to be at their doors glanced up and down casually, and retreated inside to continue their vigil from the windows.

Here they took up the vigil.

She knew that it was growing late, that Burke would be expecting her for the evening meal, but she could not summon the strength she needed to end her solitary vigil on the kopje.

Taking a good breath,you always do this before entering a trench dug-out,he plunged into the noisome cavern where his Company Signallers kept everlasting vigil.

c. In fulfillment of this sacred injunction, we find the midnight vigil carefully kept by these Indians four days and four nights at the graves of their departed.

To the west the barren peak of Mount Baldy maintained a solitary vigil in sunshine and tempest.

And she who climb'd the storm-swept steep, She who the foaming wave would dare, So oft love's vigil here to keep, Stranger, albeit thou think'st I dote, I know, I know she watches there!

Night after night for years He hath pursued long vigils in this tower Without a witness.

And she sighed, recalling her own silent vigils on the floor beneath, unknown to all save the cavaliere.

" CHAPTER IX "THIS PLACE FOR REST" As the white heat of midday passed and the shadows lengthened more and more rapidly to the east, the sheep moved out from the shade and from the tangle of the brush to feed in the open, and the dogs, which had laid one on either side of the man, rose and trotted out to recommence their vigil; but the shepherd did not change his position where he sat cross-legged under the tree.

But nothing more happened that night, though even in the dull, ghost hours of the early morning they did not relax their vigil.

From the day that Juliet relinquished her perpetual vigil, the improvement in Vera Fielding was almost uninterrupted.

The rivals call my Muse another way, To sing their vigils for the ensuing day.

And across from her leaned "Ugo," the 'cello, come down from his chamber to stand vigil at the other shoulder of the dead.

There laid upon his bed of shellsaround The moon and stars their lonely vigils kept; While in their pall-like shades the mountains bound And night bewept The bard of nature as in death's cold arms he slept.

Then late refresh'd with sleep, I rose to write The visionary vigils of the night.

The whole illogical, abominable course of events warned him to bring his vigil to an end before it should be too late; urged him to escape from the restless revolt of the dead who had dwelt in this room.

He whose awakening consciousness has become alive to its lofty possibilities, who is beginning to shake off the darkness of ignorance in which the world is enveloped, rises before the stars have ceased their vigil, and, grappling with the darkness within his soul, strives, by holy aspiration, to perceive the light of Truth while the unawakened world dreams on.

"Such turmoil arose in the church by night that the monks could not chant their vigils," and in the end they took him out, and buried him in a swamp, with a stake driven through the heart to lay his ghost.

His assistant, Woodhouse, paused for a moment in silent contemplation of the tropical night before commencing his solitary vigil.