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My father, it is true, never left me a moment to myself, and only when I was twenty years old gave me so much as ten francs of my own, ten knavish prodigals of francs, such a hoard as I had long vainly desired, which set me a-dreaming of unutterable felicity; yet, for all that he sought to procure relaxations for me.
He would come at any risk, and when we histed him up on the cutter's deck, and he comes to, he shudders and he says, 'That is too horrible. Am I a-dreaming? But it's all use, Miss. Even when some poor fellows is drowned, the men do all they can; and if they fail, they forget next day." "Could you edge us towards the cutter, skipper?" said Fullerton. "Oh, yes.
"If I have, it don't trouble me much!" she answered. "Why don't you dabble your feet; 'tis better than drinking?" "O girl," I sighed, "have you no thought beyond your immediate bodily needs, no dreams of the greater " "Dreams?" she exclaimed bitterly. "It don't do for the likes o' me to go a-dreaming! Let them dream as can afford."
When at death the soul passes from the body its subtle material elements still cling to it. On the other hand, there may be an ascent in the scale of being. When the soul is a-dreaming, what it thinks it sees and hears, etc., is all illusion, for it does not see or hear, etc., what it thinks it does.
"But I'd like to hear from him," she wailed, swaying herself to and fro. "I'm always a-dreaming of it." "You'll just dream a bit about getting the dinner ready," commanded Roy morosely; "that's what you'll dream about now. I said I'd have biled pork and turnips, and nicely you be a-getting on with it. Hark ye! I'm a-going now, but I shall be in at twelve, and if it ain't ready, mind your skin!"
Will's eyes were grey as Phoebe's, but of a different expression; soft and unsettled, cloudy as the recent weather, full of the alternate mist and flash of a precious stone, one moment all a-dreaming, the next aglow. His natural look was at first sight a little stern until a man came to know it, then this impression waned and left a critic puzzled.
On the contrary, it would be much nearer the truth to say that it is the longing and the desire to see, once again, the loved one, that sets the mind a-dreaming, and first gives to the heart hope.
Was it a marvel that in the dreams of the night the sick man toiled up and up and up the narrow staircase, of which every point remained fixed in his mind; or that waking, whatever his task, or wherever he might be, alone or in company, in his parlour or in the Town House, he still fell a-dreaming of the room and the box the room and the box that held his life? Had this been the worst!
As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree, The Angel of the Waters offered all the Seas in fee. But Adam would not take 'em, Nor the ships he wouldn't make 'em, Singing: "Water, Earth and Air and Fire, What more can mortal man desire?" As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree, The Angel of the Air he offered all the Air in fee.
They have not the means to study the life they depict; they cannot mix in the circles they describe. Fortunately their ignorance is their salvation; the pretty patterns please the young ladies, the brave notes of colour set them a-dreaming.
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