Crossword-Solution: EEP 3 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Another welcome visitor was Pierre Duprèz, lively and sparkling as ever,--he came from Paris to pass a fortnight with his "cher Phil-eep," and make merriment for the whole party.

They waked the child from its delicate sleep; its blue eyes opened wide and wise all on the instant, its round soft arm ran up to its mother's neck, and it said: "Don't c'y! I want to s'eep wif you! I'se so s'eepy!" She caught the child to her wet face, smiled at it through her tears, went with it to her own bed, put it away in the deep whiteness, kissed it, and fondled it away again into the heaven of sleep.

They waked the child from its delicate sleep; its blue eyes opened wide and wise all on the instant, its round soft arm ran up to its mother’s neck, and it said: “Don’t c’y! I want to s’eep wif you! I’se so s’eepy!” She caught the child to her wet face, smiled at it through her tears, went with it to her own bed, put it away in the deep whiteness, kissed it, and fondled it away again into the heaven of sleep.

Then Robin, who had been regarding the stranger curiously, laid his little dimpled hand on the thin, wasted one, and said: "Is you s'eep?" With a start Neil's eyes unclosed, and he looked for the first time on Bessie's children, with such a pain in his heart as he had hoped he might never feel again.

Eep, eep, 'ooray!'" As transport after transport sailed into Boulogne, and regiment after regiment landed, the population went into ecstasies of delight.