Explore "The Rise of Roscoe Paine" by Joseph C. Lincoln on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
And yet sleep I did, for a little while, just before morning broke. I had spent the night pacing the floor and talking to Phineas, who was wide awake and full of stories and jokes, to which I paid little attention. Miss Colton did not come to the library again. From the rooms above I heard occasional sobs and exclamations in Mrs. Colton's voice. Once Doctor Quimby peeped in. He looked anxious and weary.
"Hello, Ros! " he hailed, "I heard you were here. This is a high old night, isn't it!"