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`` Will you lie down for a couple of hours ? '' The squire rose . Being older and less excitable than John , he was beginning to feel the need of rest . People who have watched often by the sick know how terribly long are those hours of the night between three o'clock and dawn ; long always , but seeming interminable when one is obliged to listen perpetually to a long-drawn , inarticulate moaning , a constant effort to speak which never results in words . `` You are very good , '' said Mr. Juxon , quietly . `` If you will give him the things from time to time , I will take a nap . '' With that he went and lay down upon the couch , and in three minutes was as sound asleep as though he were in bed .