“Rising in the night, troubled over the yearning of the bassines
to be reunited to their original source.”
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Rising, later in the night, convinced at last that his spirit was
troubled by the yearning of the bassines to be reunited to their
original source, he bore them down and left them in the embrace of the
_porte-chapeaux_.
Sleep coquetted with him, now, a sleep of caprice, through which, more
remotely, James Femms continued to respond to that inanimate yearning,
palliated but still passionately unsatisfied.