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He was unconscious and oblivious of times, places, persons and seasons; and falling into some poetic vision, some day-dream, he quickly and completely forgot all that he had repeatedly and solemnly promised; or he ran away after some object of imaginary urgency and importance, which suddenly came into his head, setting off in vain pursuit of it, he knew not whither.
The conquest of Mexico was the day-dream of many an adventurer.
In all of them she wore or carried flowers her mother's sorrow for her in this detail but made it the more important and she saw herself glamorous with orchids; discarded these for an armful of long-stemmed, heavy roses; tossed them away for a great bouquet of white camellias; and so wandered down a lengthening hothouse gallery of floral beauty, all costly and beyond her reach except in such a wistful day-dream.
Little gregarious by nature, Paris had already ceased to delight me in the same way that it had delighted me at first. A "retired leisure," and the society of the woman whom I loved, grew to be the day-dream of my solitary life. And still, ever more and more plainly, it became evident to me that for the career of the student I was designed by nature.
Do you like my day-dream? If you do, perhaps I will dream again for you some time. Teacher and all of your friends send you their love. I shall be so glad when you come home, for I greatly miss you. Please give my love to your good Greek friends, and tell them that I shall come to Athens some day. Lovingly your little friend and playmate, HELEN A. KELLER.
Why not to Paris that her theatric gifts might receive training? This chic, this witchery, with which reputation credited her had not Gittel possessed it all? Had not her heroines enchanted the Ghetto? Oh, but this was a wild day-dream, insubstantial as the smoke-wreaths of the Yvonne Rupert cigar! But the obsession persisted.
In a sensuous day-dream past feelings survive in the present, images of the long ago are shuffled together with present sensations, the roving imagination leaves a bright wake behind it like a comet, and pushes a rising wave before it, like the bow of a ship; all is fluidity, continuity without identity, novelty without surprise.
There could have been little else in his circumstances to remind him of home, and if he was really in the sort of day-dream attributed to him, he was wise not to look about him.
"You sang Thais last night and several thousand people, according to this morning's paper, cheered you at the end of the second act. But I believe I can tell you your day-dream. It's to be the greatest dramatic soprano in the world home for a vacation. With John and perhaps one or two small children of the affectionate age around you." Her face flamed at that.
And, by degrees, he ceased to feel, to think actively. Conscious, not asleep, with open eyes he remained in a placid attitude, lulled in the arms of a quiet happiness. He was distracted at length by some sound at a distance. It broke through his day-dream.
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