An hour before, he had been dead weary, and I had been comparatively active.

But now his strength was recruited by the fervour of insanity, and it would have been vain for me to dream of pursuit.

Nay, the very attempt, I thought, might have inflamed his terrors, and thus increased the miseries of our position.

And I had nothing left but to turn homeward and make my sad report to Mary.
She heard it, as she had heard the first, with a concerned composure, and, bidding me lie down and take that rest of which I stood so much in need, set forth herself in quest of her misguided father.

At that age it would have been a strange thing that put me from either meat or sleep; I slept long and deep; and it was already long past noon before I awoke and came downstairs into the kitchen.