For you, driver, I have had a bed made in a small room next to the furnace; you will be nice and warm.

Good-night, gentlemen, sleep well!" She turned away, and went to rejoin the paralytic sufferer, who, as she approached, manifested his joy by a succession of inarticulate sounds.
The room to which Guitiote conducted Julien was on the first floor, and had a cheerful, hospitable appearance.

The walls were whitewashed; the chairs, table, and bed were of polished oak; a good fire of logs crackled in the fireplace, and between the opening of the white window-curtains could be seen a slender silver crescent of moon gliding among the flitting clouds.

The young man went at once to his bed; but notwithstanding the fatigues of the day, sleep did not come to him.
Through the partition he could hear the clear, sonorous voice of Reine singing her father to sleep with one of the popular ballads of the country, and while turning and twisting in the homespun linen sheets, scented with orrisroot, he could not help thinking of this young girl, so original in her ways, whose grace, energy, and frankness fascinated and shocked him at the same time.

At last he dozed off; and when the morning stir awoke him, the sun was up and struggling through the foggy atmosphere.
The sky had cleared during the night; there had been a frost, and the meadows were powdered white.