Excerpt from The Works of Charles Lever, Vol. 1: Harry Lorrequer, Tom Burke of "Ours," Charles O'malley; With Forty Illustrations The rst waking thoughts of him who has indulged over night are not among the most blissful of existence, and certainly the pleasure is not increased by the con sciousness that he is called on to the dis charge of duties to which a fevered pulse and throbbing temples are but ill suited. My sleep was sudden] broken in upon the morning after the p ay b a row - dow dow beat beneath my win ow. I jumped hastily from in bed and looked out, and there, to my error, perceived the regi ment under arms. It was one of our com founded Colonel's morning drills; and there he stood himself, with the poor adju tant who had been up all night, shiverin beside him. Some two or three of the o ficers had descended; and the drum was now summoning the others as it beat round the barrack-square. I saw there was not a moment to lose, and proceeded to dress with all dispatch; but, to my misery, I discovered eve here nothing but theat rical robes an decorations - there, lay a splendid turban, here, a pair of buskins a s angled jacket glittered on one table, an a jeweled scimitar on the other. At last I detected my regimental small clothes, most ignominiously thrust into a corner in my ardor for my Moorish robes the preceding evening. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.