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Can you see the Queen's Castle? You have better sight than I.

I can just see it rising over the tops of the houses yonder on its great rocky hill.

Is the dawn breaking? Is it touching the tower?

It is beginning to break upon the tower, but these narrow streets will be dark for a long while. (A pause.) Do you hear anything? You have better hearing than I.

No, all is quiet.

At least fifty passed by an hour since, a crowd of fifty men walking rapidly.

Last night was very quiet, not a sound, not a breath.

And not a thing to be seen till the tapster's old dog came down the street upon this very hour from Cooper Malachi's ash-pit.

Hush, I hear feet, many feet. Perhaps they are coming this way. (Pause.) No, they are going the other way, they are gone now.

The young are at some mischief, the young and the middle-aged.

Why can't they stay in their beds, and they can sleep too—seven hours, eight hours. I mind the time when I could sleep ten hours.