Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Sharp "Wake up, boy!" to disconcert...
...reproduce natural objects. But the amusing feature in Behau's Melancholy is the figure itself. For Durer's powerful presence, longing for she knows not what, we have a fat woman nearly asleep, who looks as if she had been emptied into her present position and could not wake up to move a muscle...
...Wake early, but not bright. Drizzling rain. Suggest to Freshman that we take it easy. Freshman acquiesces with ill-concealed delight. Says he has rich uncle (who dotes on him) living three miles ahead. Time to uncle's gate, two hours. Servant won't let us in; has orders to keep out tramps. Freshman implores and raves, but with no avail. Finally sends in pocket-Bible in lieu of card, and is admitted. Uncle cordial; cousins, Sophs at Vassar. Welcome breakfast. Rain increases; have to spend the day. Luncheon. Dinner. Bezique and forfeits in the sitting-room. Rain ceases. Cousins...
...then he would wake for an instant; his eye with a bright light would gleam...
...wrinkled by age, dressed in cocked-hat and knee-breeches, with his hair powdered and done up in a queue. He looked like some Rip Van Winkle who might have graduated any time early in the last century, and have been sleeping quietly from that time, only to wake then and trouble...