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But the wary envoy tried in vain to discover any foundation for these hopes. He was certain that they were not warranted by any intelligence which had arrived from any part of Great Britain; and he considered them as the mere daydreams of a feeble mind.
One moment Harmony was a shy, tender young creature, all emotion, quivering at a word, aloof at a glance, prone to occasional introspection and mysterious daydreams; the next she was a young woman, tender but not shyly so, incredibly poised, almost formidably dignified on occasion, but with little girlish lapses into frolic and high spirits.
"What's the matter with using your own sword?" demanded Eph, a trifle gruffly. "That's just the trouble," smiled Benson, plaintively. "I'm afraid I'll wake up and find I haven't any." Hal was leaning back in his parlor car chair, his eyes closed. He was dreaming delicious daydreams. "Lieutenant Benson, sir?" inquired a coxswain, saluting. "Yes," replied Jack, returning the salute.
With a note from his father on business, and numerous messages from his mother and sisters, he set out on his expedition. He rode merrily along through the green wood, often indulging in daydreams, which, had he known more of the world, he might have suspected that there was little probability of being realised. The fair Alethea formed a prominent feature in most of them.
Bagley, with the air of someone agreeing to have a tooth pulled when it hasn't really started to hurt, "I'll get it." James Holden allowed himself a few pleasant daydreams.
It was no light thing for a boy of his years, ignorant of life and the world, to cut himself adrift from old ties and voyage into the unknown. Had he been wise? He had no trade as a standby; his whole endowment was his youth and his wits. Would they suffice? Diggle's talk had opened up an immense prospect, full of color and mystery and romance, chiming well with his daydreams.
When her mother died she settled down as an incorrigible old maid, and her daydreams knew no more the vision of a love coming from the clouds to possess her. Nor did the years bring with them realization of that other vision herself enthroned in the public mind as a wonderful educator to whom the world should bow.
And the happy woman also finds her thoughts pleasant ones, and her castles in the air are mere enlargements of her life. But the dissatisfied woman, the unhappy woman, finds her daydreams pleasant and unpleasant at the same time. She is constantly coming back to reality; reality constantly obtrudes itself into her dreams. The daydreaming is rebelled against as foolish, as puerile, as futile.
Little Dulce, tired of play, lay fast asleep in the nest she had made in one of the haycocks close by, and Rose leaned against the gnarled old tree, dreaming daydreams with her work at her feet. Happy and absorbing fancies they seemed to be, for her face was beautifully tranquil, and she took no heed of the train which suddenly went speeding down the valley, leaving a white cloud behind.
I can see myself in some of them, especially in Hiram, who had daydreams, who was always going West, but never went; who always wanted some plaything fancy sheep or pigs or poultry; who was a great lover of bees and always kept them; who was curious about strange lands, but who lost heart and hope as soon as he got beyond the sight of his native hills; and who usually got cheated in every bargain he made.
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