Sixteen Months in the Danish Isles Author:Andrew Hamilton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens ?—Hamlet. I Awoke, tolerably refreshed, in the broad daylight. My fellow-traveller stood in his c... more »lothes with his back to me by the table. "Ah!" thought I, "he's up then. I must get up too, presently." But as I was in no hurry, I did not announce myself, thinking there was abundance of time. Indeed, I have always a pleasure in lying awake in the morning when I find it impossible to sleep any more. I look on it as a sort of daily protest against the inordinate bustle of this fermenting world. By and bye he turned round and caught my open eye. " Well, you've taken a good nap," quoth he. " Ye-e-s," says I. " I was afraid to waken you, so I dressed as quietly as possible, and then went down and had breakfast." "Indeed," said I, faintly ; " then I suppose it's late." " Yes, it is past eleven. I have been down at the steamboat office, where I found we could not get berths till our passports were vis6 by the Danish consul, so I went to him and got mine put right, and came to see after you, but you were fast asleep." "You're kind," said I, getting up, and beginning to dress with all speed. " I shall go with you directly." Accordingly I got ready, had coffee, paid Diana a visit, who had been accommodated for the night in the stable, but had not liked it, for she had bitten her cord asunder, whereon I had to go and buy her a chain. We proceeded to the consul's, and to the steamboat office, while the rain began to come down in large drops. We returned to the inn to dinner at half-past one, and, having dined, were carried to the quay in an omnibus. By this time the rain came down in a torrent, and we took refuge in a leaky sort of hut with a number of other individuals till the boat should sail. The floor o...« less