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And then, just because human nature is stronger, after all, than most things, memory, for the sake of a dream-face he would treasure while he had breath, made him look at her covertly with seeing eyes. He noted first that she was a perfect horsewoman slim and upright and easy, almost like a part of her horse.
When first I woke I seemed to be still straining my eyes in a dream, at such a curious, haunting face not very nice. I am glad, I am glad you were here. 'What was the dream-face like? came the muttered question. 'Dark and sharp, and rather dwelling eyes; you know those long faces one sees in dreams: like a hawk, like a conjuror's.
Yet the knights were not wholly without hope, for, Amfortas once praying before the despoiled sanctuary, and imploring a sign of pardon, a holy dream-face had appeared to him and delivered the dim but comforting oracle: "Wise through compassion.... The immaculate Fool.... Await him.... My appointed one...."
Royson, though he had watched the transformation of rock and arid earth many a time with kindling eyes, gave small heed to the dream-face of nature as he scanned the splendid prospect for sign of further attack by the Hadendowas. He found none, but he happened to note the furtive manner of some among the Arab escort who were hastening toward the small hollow enclosed by the Seven Hills.
But as she stood there for a moment trying to collect herself, Weller, the 'busman, came up to her, and he was real enough, and his anxious face was no dream-face. "Good-morning, missie," he said sympathetically. "I'm sorry enough, I'm sure, to see you come home on such an errant. 'Tis wisht, sure enough." Kitty was startled.
"No no," says the dream-face, with the love that divines without speech, "do you not understand? The stars fight for us because because " "Because God is love," catching the gleam of the thought; and the stars that fight in their courses for mortals sweep to a noonday splendour. And all the while I was but a crazy dreamer lying captive, wounded and weak in a pirate cave.
"Life, a phantom-substance, the shadow love, the all," the dream-face seems to be saying. "Events are God's thoughts storms and darkness and prey are his puppets, the blind gods, his slaves-God is love; for you are here! . . . You are here! . . . You are here with me!" When I feel through the dark this time is the grip of a living hand.
As the lid flew back at the pressure of my finger upon the spring a thrill of half joy, half terror, shot through me; for I instantly recognised in the features of the portrait a vivid presentment of that sweet dream-face whose visits to me during the silent and lonely night-watches had flooded my infant soul with such an ecstasy of rapture and delight.
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