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...young man when these events took place, staying at a sea-side hotel, it matters not where. In fact, it was during the vacation preceding my Senior year at college. I was then, perhaps, like many other young men, inclined to enjoy the society of the ladies. There were some threescore people, young and old, at the hotel, - in general, a very pleasant company. I had been there but a few days before I became more than ordinarily interested in two of the guests, a father and daughter. You may think it was wholly the latter; but I can assure...
...hotel boasted long double balconies on three sides of the house, looking seaward. One evening Bertha and I had been sitting side by side upon the lower balcony rather later than usual; the majority of the guests were within doors. It was bright moonlight, and the sea, scarcely ruffled by the wind, lay like a mirror before us. I suppose I felt a little sentimental - naturally enough...
...Imagine, if you can, the shock that the discovery gave me: it was the first time, to my knowledge, that I had ever been guilty of sleep-walking. I could hardly believe that I was yet awake. I hurried shivering back to the hotel, found the door of my bed-room open; else I might have had some trouble in re-entering it. I wrapped myself up in blankets, and tried to collect my scattered senses...
...Dinner of the Hasty Pudding Club takes place at Young's Hotel to-night...
...upon the Styx's bank that my boat was beating, but against the little pier in front of the Bay View House. So I got ashore as best I could, and, feeling as if an entire planetary system was whirling within my brain, I stumbled up to the hotel, and, in a sort of daze, got to my room and fell asleep at once...