I wake up at night in order to resume my work.

I got up last night at two o'clock.

I stretched myself on my couch before the fire to examine the army reports sent to me by the Minister of War.

I found twenty mistakes in them, and made notes which I have this morning sent to the minister, who is now engaged with his clerks in rectifying them."-- His associates weaken and sink under the burden imposed on them and which he supports without feeling the weight.

When Consul,[1149] "he sometimes presides at special meetings of the section of the interior from ten o'clock in the evening until five o'clock in the morning..
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