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And to do that is often to realize in a flash the impossibility of one's individual fate. So many of us manage to live ignorantly all our days and to call ourselves happy. Winifred could never live quite ignorantly again. To Eustace the interruption meant much less. So long as he had Winifred he could not feel that any of his dreams hung altogether in tatters.
That would, indeed, open a career to me, and bring me exalted honor, and perhaps make that event possible which has heretofore only floated before my dazzled sight like a dream-picture. Oh, Amelia! noblest, most constant of women! could the dreams of our youth be realized?
This was the hour when Evelyn most sensibly felt how little our real life is chronicled by external events, how much we live a second and a higher life in our meditations and dreams. So now, as the day crept on, Evelyn returned in a more sober mood, and then she joined her mother and Mrs.
I think it was that desire that made me, when at Oxford, contemplate a learned study of Elizabethan pastoral plays a work which, if I remember rightly, never got beyond a dedication to a damsel who, "perchance to soothe my youthful dreams," appeared too bright for common life and needed the crook and the wreath.
In my sad thoughts and in my dreams I could see the little hamlet nestling against the purple Wold; the brown leaves piled high about the shivering hedgerows; the autumn sunlight shining over the close-cropped fields; and in the manor-house the good knight, my uncle, seated by his wood-fire, wondering what had become of me.
He had fathered an idiot! That was the end of his dreams and ambitions! He had had an hour's sleep on the sitting-room sofa. He went out to his work at the County Ground with a heart full of blasphemy. When he returned at four o'clock he met the stout woman on the doorstep.
How does it seem, to be rich?" There was the slightest hint of constraint in the girl's voice as she stared out at the slowly gathering twilight, murmuring: "I I hardly know. Rich! That has always been my dream, and yet " "The wonderful feature about dreams," he took advantage of her pause to say, "is that they come true." "Not all of them not the real, wonderful dreams," she returned. "Oh yes!
I shall always be afraid of them; I shall dread to give the simplest order. You, my dear, must be the mistress of the house; indeed you must. I give over everything into your hands. I will never interfere; I won't say a word, whatever fault I may have to find; not a word. Oh, that creature; that horrible woman will haunt my dreams.
It is throughout a series of abstractions vitalised with daring exquisiteness, from Morning who sought: Her eastern watch-tower, and her hair unbound, Wet with the tears which should adorn the ground, and who Dimmed the aerial eyes that kindle day, to the Dreams that were the flock of the dead shepherd, the Dreams
He dreamed strange, troubled dreams that melted away before he could seize on them, and finally he thought his sister stood before him and called. The impression was so vivid that he started up, staring at the empty room. For an instant he still thought he heard a voice, and then he knew it was the old clock striking the hour. It was ten o'clock.
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