[At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link bookAt the Back of the North Wind CHAPTER XXV 20/23
They live on the west side of the hill.
None of us have ever been to the top of it yet." Even as he spoke, he dropped his spade.
He tumbled down beside it, and lay fast asleep.
One after the other each of the troop dropped his pickaxe or shovel from his listless hands, and lay fast asleep by his work. "Ah!" thought Diamond to himself, with delight, "now the girl-angels are coming, and I, not being an angel, shall not fall asleep like the rest, and I shall see the girl-angels." But the same moment he felt himself growing sleepy.
He struggled hard with the invading power.
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