Psalm 4:8
In Chapter 41 of Anne of Ingleside, Gilbert and Anne air out the misgivings and petty jeaousies of their fifteen years’ marriage, before Gilbert falls asleep from exhaustion:
“Roy Gardner? Philippa wrote me not long ago that she’d seen him and he’d got positively corpulent. Gilbert, Dr. Murray may be a very eminent man in his profession but he looks just like a lath and Dr. Fowler looked like a doughnut. You looked so handsome . . . and finished . . . beside them.”
“Oh, thanks . . . thanks. That’s something like a wife should say. By way of returning the compliment I thought you looked unusually well tonight, Anne, in spite of that dress. You had a little colour and your eyes were gorgeous. Ah-h-h, that’s good! No place like bed when you’re all in. There’s another verse in the Bible . . . queer how those old verses you learn in Sunday School come back to you through life! . . . ‘I will lay me down in peace and sleep.’ In peace . . . and sleep . . . goo’night.”
Gilbert was asleep almost before he finished the word. Dearest tired Gilbert! Babies might come and babies might go but none should disturb his rest that night. The telephone might ring its head off.
Psalm 4:8
King James Bible
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
