in accordance with this proposal, the whole party stationed themselves round the stone cistern; the two children, being very weary, fell asleep upon the damp earth, and the pretty shaker girl, whose feelings were those of a nun or a turkish lady, crept as close as possible to the female traveller, and as far as she well could from the unknown men. the same person who had hitherto been the chief spokesman now stood up, waving his hat in his hand, and suffered the moonlight to fall full upon his front.