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The knowledge of Death came to strangely to Akar, as his spirit weakened and he knew the end was near. And it was familiar, so familiar. It filled him with a dull horror that was the essence of all the nightmares he had tried to forget. He knew he would die, and if there had been time it would have filled him with a great sorrow. But there was no time.
And, too, it had a moat and a miniature portcullis that rather tickled his boyish fancy. The furnishings, however, had an appalling grimness that took the very heart out of one. Chairs which seemed to have grown in their places for centuries crowded the corners of hallway and stairs like gigantic nightmares of their original prototypes.
Her boy was living in Brussels near his father; there she belonged, and she suddenly saw herself brought so near this unknown, brilliant city that it seemed like her real home. Where else could she hope to rid herself of the nightmares that oppressed her except where she was permitted to see the man from whom nothing could separate her, no matter how cruelly he repulsed her?
It was only natural, he thought, that heretics should be robbers and pirates. If they could be recovered to the Church, their bad habits would leave them. The English navy was the most serious obstacle to the intended invasion. Still, Hawkins! The Achines of his nightmares! It could not be. He asked Fitzwilliam if his friend was acquainted with the Queen of Scots or the Duke of Norfolk.
Then, almost inaudibly, he answered, "no." "You mean?" "I couldn't get to her. She was there on the other side of the temple And then " "Yes," I insisted. "Yes?" "Nightmares," he cried; "nightmares indeed! My God! Great birds that fought and tore." The night was hot and overcast, the sky red, rimmed with the lingering sunset of mid-summer.
"I think," continued Ricky, undisturbed as she passed him the plate heaped with golden squares, "that they are slightly surrealist. They distinctly resemble the sort of things one is often pursued by in one's brighter nightmares." "Do you have any really good pictures?" asked Charity, resolutely averting her gaze from the ducks. "Three, but they've been loaned to the museum," answered Rupert.
She has a silver face, and a projecting swollen tongue painted a deep red. She wears a necklace of skulls. In fact, none of the idols in Benares are handsome or attractive. And what a swarm of them there is! The town is a vast museum of idols and all of them crude, misshapen, and ugly. They flock through one's dreams at night, a wild mob of nightmares.
... He was dragged into the library, expecting anything whatever. The dreadful phrases of the newspaper item rang through his head like the gongs of delirium: "Police headquarters!" "Work of a negro!" "King of France!" "Valued at about twelve hundred and fifty dollars!" Eighty-five dollars had dismayed him; twelve hundred and fifty was unthinkable. Nightmares were coming to life before his eyes.
At sunrise the harassed dreamer awoke to find Gowan gazing down at him somberly. "You you here?" he exclaimed, starting up on his elbow. "What is " He checked himself and muttered brokenly, "I've been dreaming horrible nightmares." "He's down there overhauling his outfit," said Gowan. "Hope you've thought the matter over." "My answer must be the same. I cannot do it, I cannot!" replied Ashton.
The detail of blood is set down in the untutored words of those who saw and felt it. But there was a suffering that had no record, the mortal fear of women and children in the solitude of their wilderness homes, haunted, waking and sleeping, with nightmares of horror that were but the forecast of an imminent reality.
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