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The consequence was, that, although we were kept on our legs during the whole of the night, we found, when daylight broke, that the tail of the column had not got a quarter of a mile from their starting-post. On a good broad road it is all very well; but, on a narrow bad road, a night march is like a night-mare, harassing a man to no purpose.
'DR. NEESHAWTS and several of the members were of opinion that the key must have lain very cold and heavy upon the gentleman's stomach. 'MR. KNIGHT BELL believed it did at first. It was worthy of remark, perhaps, that for some years the gentleman was troubled with a night-mare, under the influence of which he always imagined himself a wine-cellar door.
You and he had a traffic the whole evening in which you received tales of Mesmer, Shropfer, Cagliostro, and other modern pretenders to the mystery of raising spirits, discovering hidden treasure, and so forth, in exchange for your legends of the green bedchamber; and considering that the Illustrissimus ate a pound and a half of Scotch collops to supper, smoked six pipes, and drank ale and brandy in proportion, I am not surprised at his having a fit of the night-mare.
When spoken of by his admirers he was generally described by such panegyrical periphrases as 'soul of the country, 'foundation of the State, 'the only real, and true, and substantial being; while, on the other hand, those who presumed to differ from those sentiments were in the habit of styling him 'the dead weight, 'the vampire, 'the night-mare, and other titles equally complimentary.
In that last round that I fought with misfortune the strength of my body was exhausted so completely that it could give no support to my spirit; and as the days went on and on always with the same weed-covered sea around me and the same soft golden mist over me, and I always working wearily but with the stolid steadiness of a machine so deadening a numbness took hold of me that I seemed to myself like some far-away strange person yet one with whom I had a direct connection, and must needs sorrow for and sympathize with struggling interminably through the dull jading mazes of a night-mare dream.
White, "see to it that you never become so worldly-wise as to learn how. A head that does not ache is a joy forever." Hasty good nights were exchanged, and this time there was no "waking night-mare" for Tavia. She wanted to sleep young hearts may ache once in a while, but they have a comfortable habit of deferring to tired nature at least once in twenty-four hours.
He fancied that the secret had oozed out; he fancied that men eyed him sometimes with strange glances; he pictured to himself the degradation he should feel if Julian, or De Vayne, or Lillyston ever knew of what weakness he was capable. This one error rode like a night-mare on his breast. But none of his gloomy presentiments on the score of detection were fulfilled.
"He didn't even speak to me. But I saw him cross the brightly-lighted lane leading to the Haven. He plunged among the trees and disappeared." "Did you know him?" Jasper asked, now much interested. "Yes. I met him once in the city at Mrs. Dingle's party. He is an English artist, Sydney Bramshaw by name, and he affected me then like a terrible night-mare.
In about half an hour's time, however, I had quite worked off the effect of this night-mare, and reasoned myself into the natural solution that the creature had got on my bed, and lay, as I have been told they will, upon my throat, and so, all the rest had followed.
Although this is a sort of thing that one will sometimes submit to, when it comes by way of illusion, at its proper time and place, such as a midnight visit from a night-mare; yet, as I seemed now to be visited by a horse as well as a mare, and that, too, in the middle of the day, and in the midst of a crowded camp, it was rather too much of a joke, and I therefore sung out most lustily.
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