[My Long Crawl in the Dark] When we got back to the hotel I wound and set the pedometer and put it in my pocket, for I was to carry it next day and keep record of the miles we made.

The work which we had given the instrument to do during the day which had just closed had not fatigued it perceptibly.
We were in bed by ten, for we wanted to be up and away on our tramp homeward with the dawn.

I hung fire, but Harris went to sleep at once.
I hate a man who goes to sleep at once; there is a sort of indefinable something about it which is not exactly an insult, and yet is an insolence; and one which is hard to bear, too.

I lay there fretting over this injury, and trying to go to sleep; but the harder I tried, the wider awake I grew.

I got to feeling very lonely in the dark, with no company but an undigested dinner.