In a few minutes she was asleep, although she had not felt any heaviness on her eyes.
CHAPTER XXXII
No one was awake.
In the brazier a faint glow peeped from the white turf-ash; the earth seemed to be holding its breath, so still it was; the clouds hung immovably each in its place; a solitary tree near by folded its wide limbs into the darkness and made no sound.
Nothing stirred in the world but the ass as he lifted his head slowly and drooped it again; his feet were sunken in a plot of grass and he was quiet as the earth.
Then I came softly, and I spoke to the ass in the darkness.
"Little ass," quoth I, "how is everything with you?"
"Everything is very well," said the ass.