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Updated: June 9, 2025
On a blue day of spring, when despondency lowered upon her, and all occupation, all amusements seemed a burden, she was driven to address her friend on the other side of the world, to send a cry of pain and hopelessness to the dream-island of the Pacific. 'What is the use of working at music? The simple truth is, that since I left England I have given it up.
I was prepared for what I saw the stormy sea for leagues around, and a chaos of breakers where our dream-island had stood and took it quietly, even with a sort of elation. The Dulcibella faced the storm as doggedly as ever, plunging her bowsprit into the sea and flinging green water over her bows. A wave of confidence and affection for her welled through me.
We had to drive them away energetically, and as their canoes were soon overcrowded, many of them jumped into the water with shouts and laughter, and swam several miles to the shore, floating happily in the blue sea, with their long hair waving after them like liquid gold. Thus I saw the last of the dream-island, bathed in the rays of the setting sun.
Instinctively Patsy caught Stair by the arm, gave it a little joyous tug, and cried out, "Oh, Stair, was ever anything so beautiful?" The young man glanced down at her. But her eyes were on the distant, tender blue of the coast about Whitehaven, and the Isle of Man hovering in a mother-of-pearl haze, like a dream-island about to alight.
Then a point of light was swaying and flickering away to the left, and now we were checking and circling. I stumbled against something sharp the dinghy's gunwale. So we had completed the circuit of our fugitive domain, that dream-island nightmare island as I always remember it. 'You must scull, too, said Davies. 'It's blowing hard now. Keep her nose up a little all you know!
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