Kate stood by the window, looking out drearily at the matinal sunlight.
I was awakened, as usual, by the outcries of the refractory negroes receiving their matinal stripes in the whipping-house.
I might add, however, for your further information, that I think I shall not go to Bund-i-Kir, which looks too peaceful to disturb at this matinal hour, but there--on the western shore of the Ab-i-Shuteit.
