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Again Lamb confesses to several cousins in Hertfordshire, and to two others. John Lamb's character is perhaps sufficiently described in this essay and in "Dream-Children." He was a well-to-do official in the South-Sea House, succeeding John Tipp as accountant. Crabb Robinson found him too bluff and noisy to be bearable; and he once knocked Hazlitt down in a dispute about painting.
"He certainly appears to neglect all sublunary things; and, to judge from certain appearances, since you seem fond of holy similitudes, one would say, that, like St. Serapion the Sindonite, he had but one shirt. Yet what cares he? he lives in that poetic dream-land of his thoughts, and clothes his dream-children in poetry." "He is a poet, then, as well as a philosopher?"
These new-born green things hidden far down in the swamp, begotten in want and mystery, were to her a living wonderful fairy tale come true. All the latent mother in her brooded over them; all her brilliant fancy wove itself about them. They were her dream-children, and she tended them jealously; they were her Hope, and she worshipped them.
"You mean," whispered she, "in our own home?" "Where better?" She paled as, kneeling beside her, he flung a powerful arm about her, and pulled her to him, breathing heavily. "Don't! Don't!" she forbade. "No, no, Allan there's so much work to do you mustn't!" To her a vision rose of dream-children strong sons and daughters yet unborn. Their eyes seemed smiling, their fingers closing on hers.
These dream-children tugged strangely at the old lady's heart-strings in her moments of reverie. Even yet, after Rosemary came but they would not be like her own flesh and blood, as a daughter's children always are. Poor Rosemary! How miserable she was at home, and how little she would need to make her happy! To think that she dared not tell her Grandmother and Aunt that she was engaged to Alden!
Charles Young's son, the vicar of Ilminster, has, recently, in his own Diary appended to his memoir of his father, the tragedian, related a curious anecdote, illustrative, in a very striking way, of the grief the profound and overwhelming grief excited in a mind and heart like those of Lord Jeffrey, by the imaginary death of another of these dream-children of Charles Dickens.
They are pure children of spirit; they live in a world peopled with the dream-children of their mind and everything they produce is vapid and useless in the world in which they live and have being; everything seems to pass away from them and their productions are as nothing under the crush and strain of life around.
He could not have meant Wards, for Robert Ward did not marry William Plumer's widow till four years after this essay was printed. My Alice. See notes to "Dream-Children." Mildred Elia, I take it. Alter these words, in the London Magazine, came this passage:
She had told Paloma Jones about her dream-children, but she had not confessed the existence of another and a far more intimate creature of her brain one who occupied the place Ed Austin should have held. There was such a person, however, and Alaire called him her dream husband.
There was a haunted room at Blakesware, but the suggestion that the famous Mrs. Battle died in it was probably due to a sudden whimsical impulse. Lamb states in "Dream-Children" that Mrs. Field occupied this room. The hills of Lincoln. See Lamb's sonnet "On the Family Name," Vol. IV. Lamb's father came from Lincoln. Those old W s. Lamb thus disguised the name of Plumer.
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