down on a wide bunk that stretched across the end of the room .
The wine made her so sleepysleepythat she could scarcely keep her eyes open and she layliedown on her bed and knew nothing more for a long time .
I layliedown on the grass , which was very short and soft , where I sleptsleepsounder than ever I remembered to have done in my life , and , as I reckonedreckon, about nine hours ; for when I awakedawake, it was just day-light .
“ In spite of a slight tendency to exaggeration , Katharine decidedly hitshitthe mark , ” he saidsay, and lyinglieback in his chair , with his opaque contemplative eyes fixed on the ceiling , and the tips of his fingers pressed together , he depicteddepict, first the horrors of the streets of Manchester , and then the bare , immense moors on the outskirts of the town , and then the scrubby little house in which the girl would live , and then the professors and the miserable young students devoted to the more strenuous works of our younger dramatists , who would visit her , and how her appearance would change by degrees , and how she would fly to London , and how Katharine would have to lead her about , as one leads an eager dog on a chain , past rows of clamorous butchers ’ shops , poor dear creature .
Miss Marjoribanks sketchedsketchto herself , as she laylieback in the corner of the railway carriage , with her veil down , how she would wind herself up to the duty of presiding at her papa 's dinner-parties , and charming everybody by her good humour , and brightness , and devotion to his comfort ; and how , when it was all over , she would withdraw and cry her eyes out in her own room , and be found in the morning languid and worn-out , but always heroical , ready to go downstairs and assist at dear papa 's breakfast , and keep up her smiles for him till he had gone out to his patients .
Quickly he turnedturnto feel in the dark for a ladder he knew led to a loft ; and findingfindit , he quickly mountedmount, taking carecarenot to make a noise with his rifle , and layliedown upon the floor of brush and poles .
As it chanced , Dale laylieface down upon the floor of the loft , and right near his eyes there were cracks between the boughs .
As soon as the bacon was well under way , and Millie , her lymphatic maid , had been briskedbriskup a bit by a few deftly chosenchooseexpressionsexpressionof contempt , she carriedcarrythe cloth , plates , and glasses into the parlour and began to layliethem with the utmost _ eclat _ .