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Tell Miss Middleton so , with my respects , and say how grateful I feel to her for this kind attention . '' `` Yes , sir . '' `` And , Powers , you may bring me lights now . '' And a few minutes later , when Powers had returned with two lighted candles and placed them on the table , Ishmael , who knew that not an over tasked brain , but an undisciplined heart , was the secret of his malady , set himself to work as to a severe discipline , and worked away for three or four hours with great advantage ; for , when at twelve o'clock he retired to bed , he fell asleep and slept soundly until morning . That is what work did for Ishmael . And work will do as much for anyone who will try it . It is true in the morning he awoke to a new sense of woe ; but the day had also its work to discipline him .