1 Then she went back to the bed again and sat at the foot.
2 Polly sat for a little time on the side of the bed, crying.
3 "The people are in bed and after their first sleep now," he said.
4 Nannie gave the lead and we three knelt down at the foot of the bed.
5 Mr. Kernan sent a letter to his office next day and remained in bed.
6 When we rose and went up to the head of the bed I saw that he was not smiling.
7 She did not disturb the silence, but leaned over the rail at the foot of the bed.
8 Then late one night as he was undressing for bed she had tapped at his door, timidly.
9 The bed was clothed with white bedclothes and a black and scarlet rug covered the foot.
10 She broke loose from him and ran to the bed and, throwing her arms across the bed-rail, hid her face.
11 He sat propped up in the bed by pillows and the little colour in his puffy cheeks made them resemble warm cinders.
12 She stopped, choking with sobs, and, overcome by emotion, flung herself face downward on the bed, sobbing in the quilt.
13 While he was sitting helplessly on the side of the bed in shirt and trousers she tapped lightly at his door and entered.
14 While he was sitting with her on the side of the bed Mary came to the door and said that the missus wanted to see him in the parlour.
15 His wife put him to bed while Mr. Power sat downstairs in the kitchen asking the children where they went to school and what book they were in.
16 Then she took off her working skirt and her house-boots and laid her best skirt out on the bed and her tiny dress-boots beside the foot of the bed.
17 A fat brown goose lay at one end of the table and at the other end, on a bed of creased paper strewn with sprigs of parsley, lay a great ham, stripped of its outer skin and peppered over with crust crumbs, a neat paper frill round its shin and beside this was a round of spiced beef.
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