human
So I find, returned his friend.
gpt
I have tried everything. Counting up to hundreds of thousands has made me rather more wakeful. I find that thinking of Emmy does me most good, but even that won't produce sleep.
human
Strange! remarked Miles.
gpt
I have been trying the same sort of thing-- without success. And I've had an unusually hard day of it, so that I ought to be ready for sleep. You were in luck, being on police-duty.
human
H'm! I don't think much of my luck. But let's hear what you have been up to all day.
gpt
Well, first, I began by turning out at 5:30 a.m., said Miles, rolling with a sigh on his other side, for a uniform, cross-belts, boots, ammunition, etcetera, don't, after all, form an easy night-dress.
human
After a cup of coffee I fell in with a lot of our fellows, and was told off for fatigue-duty. Worked away till 7:30. Then breakfast. After that I had to clear up the mess; then got ready for inspection parade at 9:30, after which I had to scrub belts, and clean up generally. Dinner over, I was warned to go on night-guard; but, for some reason which was not stated to me, that was changed, and I'm not sorry for it, because the heat has taken a good deal out of me, and I prefer lying here beside you, Willie, to standing sentry, blinking at the desert, and fancying every bush and stone to be a dusky skirmisher of Osman Digna. By the way, if that mountain range where the enemy lies is twelve or fourteen miles distant from the town, they have a long way to come when they take a fancy to attack us--which is pretty often too. They say he has got two hundred thousand men with him. D'you think that can be true?