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 unfortunately, in the house. This inconvenience would, indeed, not have given us the least uneasiness at any other time, either of us taking it rather as a favour to be suffered to sleep on a chair if the bed happened to be too small to contain both. But now, neither would resign the bed to the other; and, after a long and warm contention, we squeezed ourselves at length into the narrow compass of our uncomfortable couch. Yet we were incapable of getting a wink of sleep, tossing ourselves from one side to the other, and murmuring alternately at our miserable situation. We had the additional misfortune to be almost suffocated by an intense heat, which, at length, drove me out of the bed. I began to walk up and down in the room, and the Count soon followed my example, stepping to the window, and inhaling the fresh night air.

"What the Dl does that mean?" he exclaimed at once, starting suddenly back. "Look, Carlos, what a numerous