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1  Soon all would be dark and sleeping.
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2  He closed his eyes in the languor of sleep.
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3  But then they got hot and then he could sleep.
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4  They stirred, waking from sleep, troubled by the heated air.
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5  Over his limbs in sleep pale cool waves of light had passed.
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6  He rose slowly and, recalling the rapture of his sleep, sighed at its joy.
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7  Conscious of his desire she was waking from odorous sleep, the temptress of his villanelle.
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8  But no other sound was in the air and the swallows whose flight he had followed with idle eyes were sleeping.
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9  His blood began to murmur in his veins, murmuring like a sinful city summoned from its sleep to hear its doom.
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10  Its murmur besieged his ears like the murmur of some multitude in sleep; its subtle streams penetrated his being.
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11  They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep in a bedroom of the Victoria Hotel.
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12  The terror of sleep fascinated his mind as he watched the silent country or heard from time to time his father's deep breath or sudden sleepy movement.
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13  The whores would be just coming out of their houses making ready for the night, yawning lazily after their sleep and settling the hairpins in their clusters of hair.
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14  Faintly, under the heavy night, through the silence of the city which has turned from dreams to dreamless sleep as a weary lover whom no caresses move, the sound of hoofs upon the road.
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15  A figure that had seemed to him by day demure and innocent came towards him by night through the winding darkness of sleep, her face transfigured by a lecherous cunning, her eyes bright with brutish joy.
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16  The first faint noise of gently moving water broke the silence, low and faint and whispering, faint as the bells of sleep; hither and thither, hither and thither; and a faint flame trembled on her cheek.
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17  It would be lovely to sleep for one night in that cottage before the fire of smoking turf, in the dark lit by the fire, in the warm dark, breathing the smell of the peasants, air and rain and turf and corduroy.
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