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I had intended to remain in Washington till the holidays; but I plead guilty to a roving disposition, and I frequently change my mind." "Woman's most charming prerogative," said I, gallantly. What a mask the human countenance is! How little I dreamed that I was jesting with a woman whose heart was breaking, and numbed with a terrible pain!
I have been so admired, so looked up to by the men who have surrounded me, I never dreamed of being the object of mere curiosity or amusement. Well, I went. The room was half full of men and women, talking, laughing, moving about. I was alone, and from the moment of my entrance into that blaze of light I felt lonely and weak; but I crossed the room and spoke to my hostess.
As he had now dry wings, he flew a tolerable distance, and reached a hot-bed, where a sash of the glass roof was partly open, so he quietly slipped in and buried himself in the warm earth. "Very comfortable it is here," said he. Soon after he went to sleep, and dreamed that the emperor's favourite horse had fallen, and had given him his golden shoes, with the promise that he should have two more.
No more romance, said Helen May and here was Starr, a man of mystery, a man feared and distrusted by the sons of those passionate dons of whom she dreamed!
Collingwood listened with deep attention; but when Cynthia reached the tale of the hidden stairway, she started in surprise. "Why, I never dreamed there was such a thing in the house!" she exclaimed. "The rooms were re-papered once, but I was away when it was done. None of us knew!" "No, we thought you didn't," continued Cynthia. "And so we went into the locked-up room.
He spoke like a man who had been suddenly convinced, beyond power of further unbelief, of something he had never suspected, never dreamed of. And the conviction seemed to be bitter to him, even alarming. "But away out there must be the real home of peace, I think," Domini said. "Where?" said the man, quickly. She pointed towards the south. "In the depths of the desert," she said.
It was one that she was sure she would never forget. She brooded over it with silent adoration, with a simple faith and confidence in the goodness of its owner, which would have cut him to the heart if he had ever dreamed of it. He had been kind to her; that was all she knew. She rewarded him by the devotion of her whole being. It was surely a great reward for such a little act!
"Say, you, give me my money!" Such were Josiah Bean's words, as he rushed up to Henry Davis and grabbed the swindler by the shoulder. The slick-looking individual was thoroughly startled, for he had not dreamed that the countryman would get on his track so soon. He turned and looked at the man and also at Joe, and his face fell. "Wha what are you talking about?" he stammered.
"I must have slept soundly, for I haven't dreamed a single dream all night long." Then she noticed that none of the other hens had stirred. "Lazy bones!" Henrietta remarked to the Rooster. "You won't get 'em up in a hurry. They, don't hear you at all." To her surprise she received no answer. "He couldn't have heard me," she said to herself. So she repeated her speech in a louder tone.
"Daisy, Daisy " he whispered haltingly, "I am not not more to you than our child?" She turned her face up to his; her eyes were full of tears though she was smiling still. "More to me than all the world, dear," she whispered back; "dearer to me than my hope of heaven." She had never spoken such words to him before; he had never dreamed to hear them on her lips.
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