about eight hours , as I was afterwards assuredassure; and it was no wonder , for the physicians , by the emperor ’s orderorder, had mingledminglea sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine .
well did the tall stately girl of eighteen rememberrememberthe tearstearshed with such wild passion of griefgriefby the little girl of nine , as she hidhideher face under the bed-clothes , in that first night ; and how she was biddenbidnot to cry by the nurse , because it would disturb Miss Edith ; and how she had criedcryas bitterly , but more quietlyquietly, till her newly-seennewly, grand , pretty aunt had comecomesoftly upstairs with Mr. Hale to show him his little sleepingsleepdaughter .
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 .
His bedchamber had been a wooden box half full of straw , on which the young boot-black had reposedreposehis weary limbs , and sleptsleepas soundly as if it had been a bed of down .
Jem Rodney 's story was no more than what might have been expected by anybody who had seen how Marner had curedcureSally Oates , and mademakeher sleepsleeplike a baby , when her heart had been beating enough to burst her body , for two months and more , while she had been under the doctor 's care .
Towards morning I sleptsleepand was wakenedwakenby the continuous knockingknockat my door , so I guess I must have been sleeping soundly then .
Many things happened during the hours in which she sleptsleepso heavily , but she was not disturbed by the wailswailand the soundsoundof things being carriedcarryin and out of the bungalow .