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Consider now that half-lit region which is called the foreconscious mind; for this is of special interest to the spiritual life. It is, in psychological language, the region of autistic as contrasted with realistic thought. That is to say, it is the agent of reverie and meditation; it is at work in all our brooding states, from day-dream to artistic creation.
A rather loud but well-bred exclamation of Madame de Grandmaison roused Amelie from her day-dream. "Not going to the Intendant's ball at the Palace, my Lady de Tilly! neither you nor Mademoiselle de Repentigny, whom we are so sorry not to have seen to-day? Why, it is to be the most magnificent affair ever got up in New France.
A faint reek of cigars and lavender-water not smelt since that early autumn night six months ago, when she had called him 'the limit. Whence came it, or was it ghost of scent sheer emanation from memory? She looked round her. Nothing not a thing, no tiniest disturbance of her hall, nor of the diningroom. A little day-dream of a scent illusory, saddening, silly!
The sunlight flickered in here and there, and shadowy leaves moved noiselessly up and down the whitewashed wall. Only the occasional song of a bird was wanting to reproduce the former hour, but at this later season the birds seem content with calls and chirpings, and in the July heat they were almost as silent as we were. But how weak and fanciful my June day-dream now seemed.
"John has been talking about me this morning!" she cried. He shook his head. "It was only a chance shot," he told her. "I'm sorry if it came close enough home to hurt. But there couldn't be a better day-dream than that and there's no reason I can see why it shouldn't come reasonably true, if you'll honestly try for as much of it as you can get. That's the prescription, anyhow.
Greatly moved, pulling his moustache, and glancing with a sort of uneasiness at Prince Andras, who was promenading on the bank with the Baroness, Michel Menko paused before addressing Marsa, who had not perceived his approach, and who was evidently far away in some day-dream. Gently, hesitatingly, and in a low voice, he at last spoke her name: "Marsa!"
A seclusion, but seldom a solitude; for priest, noble, and populace, stranger and native, all who breathe Roman air, find free admission, and come hither to taste the languid enjoyment of the day-dream that they call life. But Donatello's enjoyment was of a livelier kind. He soon began to draw long and delightful breaths among those shadowy walks.
She answered with caresses and promises, and whoever had watched her eye, would have seen it in a happy day-dream of Algernon's perfection, and his uncle thanking her for it.
He cannot write for posterity, nor can he live in a day-dream world of his own. The poet is often lost to his own contemporaries. It may need two or three, five or six, generations to reveal him, as Shakespeare, Milton, Shelley, and Wordsworth may remind us.
Now that she had the pure air of heaven in her lungs, that from afar she could smell the sea, and could feel that perhaps in a straight line of vision from where she stood, the "Day-Dream" with Sir Percy on board, might be lying out there in the roads, it seemed impossible that he should fail in freeing her and those poor people an old man and two children whose lives depended on her own.
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