But surely sleep is not the first thing! Surely, surely, action takes precedence of repose!" "A man can do nothing he is not fit to do .-- See! did I not tell you Mara would do her part ?" I looked whither he pointed, and saw a white spot moving at an acute angle with the line taken by the leopardess.
"There she is!" he cried.

"The spotted leopardess is strong, but the white is stronger!" "I have seen them fight: the combat did not appear decisive as to that." "How should such eyes tell which have never slept?
The princess did not confess herself beaten--that she never does--but she fled! When she confesses her last hope gone, that it is indeed hard to kick against the goad, then will her day begin to dawn! Come; come! He who cannot act must make haste to sleep!".