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"Why, you said you were hungry. Don't you like what you have there?" "Oh, yes, mamma; I'm eating away." With an effort Jeanne swallowed a mouthful. Helene looked at her for a time, but soon again began dreaming of the fatal room which she had come from. It did not escape the child that her mother took little interest in her now.
Though he did not know it at the moment, the supreme opportunity of his life lay on the lap of the god of Battles. The Lloyd George who sat in council in Downing Street was no dreaming pacifist. He who had tried to stop the irresistible flood of the Boer War now rode the full swell of the storm that threatened for the moment to engulf all Britain.
Several times he slowly shook his head, like a dreaming owl, and when his eyes reopened their fire was gone, and a reflective film covered them. He began to speak, more deliberately than before, and in a musing tone: "What can I do? I don't believe there is a mountain on the face of the globe lofty enough to lift its head above that flood. Hum, hum! It's no use thinking about mountains!
There was no need of dreaming further about the matter. Only one course, considering the circumstances, lay before him. "You're very kind," he said at last. "But I won't go. Tell her you didn't find me." Bill straightened and sighed. "Make no mistake about that, Lounsbury," he answered.
"My dear little Gretchen," he said, hastily, "there was no brown man. He existed in your imagination only." "But I saw him!" "You fancied you saw him. The room was dark. You were half asleep in the easy chair half asleep, and half dreaming." "But Hartmann saw him!" "A wicked man fears his own shadow," said Monsieur Maurice, gravely.
But, oh, lovely beyond power of language to describe! past all conception, and comparable alone with fancies such as float through the brain of poet-lover as he lies dreaming of his soul's desire.
"You are right there, father," cried Bartja. "Philomel, as the Greeks call our Gulgul, is the lovers' bird among all nations, for love has given her her beautiful song. What beauty were you dreaming of, Darius, when you went out to listen to the nightingale?" "I was not dreaming of any," answered he.
On the wall the lizards, awakened by the sudden glare, resumed their fly-catching, and scuttled with a dry, scurrying sound over the walls, breaking the silence with a perpetual "chuck-chuck" as they chased each other. Joicey looked as though he was dreaming evil dreams, and nothing of his surroundings was real to him.
He sprang from the seat and made a wild dash at the boy, but Wyndham was too quick for him, and escaped, leaving his adversary baffled as he had never been before, and almost doubting whether he had not been and still was dreaming.
Only think of recovering all that old treasure which had lain almost two centuries under the sea! Methinks Sir William Phips ought to have been buried in the ocean when he died, so that he might have gone down among the sunken ships and cargoes of treasure which he was always dreaming about in his lifetime." "He was buried in one of the crowded cemeteries of London," said Grandfather.
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