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What with the clashing music, the thick smoke in the air, the strange language, and a kind of dreaminess over everything, it is too much for Joyce, and she suddenly flops her head down on my shoulder in a profound slumber, hugely to your delight. Her mother's cry of "Joyce!" brings her to herself with a crimson face, and I see you get a surreptitious kick for giggling, which you richly deserve!
Adela doubted for some time whether Stella regarded her with affection; the little demonstrations in which women are wont to indulge were incompatible with that grave dreaminess, and Stella seemed to avoid even the common phrases of friendship.
His note was one of joviality, almost of bluffness. "I'm not sure that I wish him to," said the painter's wife, her eyes straying as if in a sudden dreaminess. "It's a distinction nowadays not to care for money.
With this "conative act," as the psychologists would call it, the true contemplative life begins. Contemplation, you see, has no very close connection with dreaminess and idle musing: it is more like the intense effort of vision, the passionate and self-forgetful act of communion, presupposed in all creative art.
If you had met me accidentally, would you have thought so?" "Surely; my eyes are always open to the truth." "If I could meet such a man as you are I could love him 'with a dreaminess of eye not characteristic of this strong, pragmatic family." She broke away from him, but he caught her. "If I were not related to you," he said, "I would be tempted to kiss you."
But Uncle James thought a good wife better than wealth." Primrose stared in blank amazement. Had not Andrew said there was a condition he could not fulfill? Was it this? "I should have made him a good wife and roused him out of that dreaminess he allowed to hang about him. And because it was to be so, I plead with Uncle James until he relented. He hath promised me to take him back "
This new sense of leisure and unchecked enjoyment amidst the soft-breathing airs and garden-scents of advancing spring amidst the new abundance of music, and lingering strolls in the sunshine, and the delicious dreaminess of gliding on the river could hardly be without some intoxicating effect on her, after her years of privation; and even in the first week Maggie began to be less haunted by her sad memories and anticipations.
"And now what shall we do next Wednesday evening?" said Jessie Hyde, in a business-like tone. "It is your turn, Henry, to suggest." Jessie was a practical, energetic young lady, whose blue eyes never relapsed into the dreaminess to which that color is subject. She furnished the "go" for the club.
Baxter looked distressed, though, as the meal was about concluded, and William had partaken of his share in spite of his dreaminess, she had no anxieties connected with his sustenance. As for Mr. Baxter, he felt a little remorse, undoubtedly, but he was also puzzled. So plain a man was he that he had no perception of the callous brutality of the words "THAT GIRL" when applied to some girls.
Rose turned directly she heard the steps and voices, and over the dreaminess of her face there flashed a sudden brightness. 'You have been a long time! she exclaimed, saying the first thing that came into her head, joyously, rashly, like the child she in reality was. 'How many halt and maimed has Robert taken you to see, Mr. Langham? 'We went to Murewell first. The library was well worth seeing.
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