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Then he thought he might have alarmed the passenger in Eleven when he had first entered. Yet there was, officially at least, no passenger in Eleven; plainly there was nothing to do but to call the conductor. He went forward. O'Brien was sorting his collections in the smoking-room of the next car. Raz Brown, awake nominally, at least sat by, reading his dream-book.
An hour after, whether lucky or unlucky, the Italian buys a new ticket for the following week, and lives on hope and dreams until the next Saturday; and when any event happens or any dream comes to him he searches in the dream-book for a number corresponding to them, and he is off like lightning to buy a ticket.
For his part, he never does anything, and has even given up reading the Dream-book. But there are a good many of our landed gentry in Russia exactly like this. It will be asked: 'What is my object in talking about him?... Well, by way of answering that question, let me describe to you one of my visits at Mardary Apollonitch's. I arrived one summer evening at seven o'clock.
There had to be a few formal words between the preacher and the sinner before Mary had entire possession of her playmate, but when her brother drove away, promising to call for her later in the afternoon, she became so engrossed in the important task of picking hollyhock seeds that she quite forgot the dream-book.
'Because, said she, 'servants never dream anything but the things in the Dream-book, like snakes and oysters and going to a wedding that means a funeral, and snakes are a false female friend, and oysters are babies. 'Talking of babies, said Cyril, 'where's the Lamb? 'Martha's going to take him to Rochester to see her cousins. Mother said she might.
Freddy ought to marry a dumb woman; that would be properest; but Percy says no anything has got to 'come to pass' when it's foreordinationed!" "And could thee really believe such foolishness, my sensible little Susan? Does thee suppose the good Lord ever meant that we should read his Bible as if it were a wicked dream-book?"
"Let's see what it says about a parasol;" and she turned over her dream-book. "For a maiden to dream she loses her parasol shows that her sweetheart is false and will never marry her 5, 51, 56." "But you didn't dream about a parasol, Pinky." "That's no matter; it's just as good as a dream. 5, 51, 56 is the row. Put that down for the second, Fan." As Mrs.
The conservatism which shrinks at such barbarities is the same conservatism which demands that the very typographical errors in the Bible be swallowed without salt, and that has thus made a puerile dream-book of parts of Holy Writ.
"There's an organ-grinder; it's the first thing I saw;" and she came back fingering the leaves of her dream-book. "Put down 40, 50, 26." Mrs. Bray wrote the numbers on her slip of paper. "It's November; let's find the November row." Pinky consulted her book again. "Signifies you will have trouble through life 7, 9, 63. That's true as preaching; I was born in November, and I've had it all trouble.
I can smell the odour of the gathered hay, and the faces in my dream-book smile at me. Of all of these memories I like best the one in the pine forest. I was at that age when children think of their parents as being all-powerful. I could hardly have imagined any circumstances, however adverse, that my father could not have met with his strength and wisdom and skill.
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