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But many a man who would have stood within a home dismantled, strong in his passion and design of vengeance, has had the firmness of his nature conquered by the razing of an air-built castle. When the log-hut received them for the second time, Martin laid down upon the ground, and wept aloud. 'Lord love you, sir! cried Mr Tapley, in great terror; 'Don't do that! Don't do that, sir!
For an instant she gave herself up to delusive visions; and, even after the period of delirium expired, she still dwelt, with an aching eye, upon the air-built and unsubstantial prospect of a reconciliation. At his particular request, she retained the name of Imlay, which, a short time before, he had seemed to dispute with her.
No Eden of lakes and forest lawns, such as the mirage suddenly evokes in Arabian sands, no pageant of air-built battlements and towers, that ever burned in dream-like silence amongst the vapors of summer sunsets, mocking and repeating with celestial pencil "the fuming vanities of earth," could leave behind it the mixed impression of so much truth combined with so much absolute delusion.
Before him lay an awful necessity the necessity of going to Beaubocage to tell those who loved him how their air-built castles had been shattered by this deed of his. The letters from Cydalise nay, indeed, more than one letter from his mother, with whom letter-writing was an exceptional business had of late expressed much anxiety.
How often must he have wished to be possessed of one of those diabolical forms, described by Milton, which now were taller than the pole, and anon could shrink into the compass of an atom! But I forget the characteristic of my profession. It is not ours, my lord, to live in air-built castles, and to deal in imaginary hypotheses.
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