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But I'll never let him get any older than eleven or twelve; because if I did some day he might grow up altogether and then I'd lose him." "I know," nodded Paul. "That's the beauty of dream-people . . . they stay any age you want them. You and my beautiful teacher and me myself are the only folks in the world that I know of that have dream-people.
But do not yield to the temptation which, as The Kybalion states, overcomes the half-wise and which causes them to be hypnotized by the apparent unreality of things, the consequence being that they wander about like dream-people dwelling in a world of dreams, ignoring the practical work and life of man, the end being that "they are broken against the rocks and torn asunder by the elements, by reason of their folly."
He no longer walked with measured pace, but glided along with a certain stealthiness, peering on this side and that down moony vistas and into shadow-bowers, as if half-expecting, if he might step lightly enough, to catch a glimpse of some sort of dream-people basking there.
The lunch had passed like a mild nightmare, and he felt as though, with the inconsequence of dream-people, these people had gone away without having accomplished some essential act which had been the object of their gathering. When George came out of the front door, he beheld Miss Ingram on the kerb, in the act of getting into a very rich fur coat.
Isn't it funny and nice we should all know each other? But I guess that kind of people always find each other out. Grandma never has dream-people and Mary Joe thinks I'm wrong in the upper story because I have them. But I think it's splendid to have them. YOU know, Miss Lavendar. Tell me all about your little dream-boy." "He has blue eyes and curly hair.
His dreamings and readings worked certain changes in him, by-and-by. His dream-people were so fine that he grew to lament his shabby clothing and his dirt, and to wish to be clean and better clad.
"It must be lots of fun," said Paloma. "Yes. Sometimes my dream-people are very real, Why I can actually see them. Then I realize I have been too much alone." "You ought to have children," the girl declared, calmly. "I have. Yes! Imaginary kiddies and they are perfect dears, too." "Are they ever naughty?" "Oh, indeed they are! And I have to punish them. Then I feel terribly.
His dreamings and readings worked certain changes in him, by-and-by. His dream-people were so fine that he grew to lament his shabby clothing and his dirt, and to wish to be clean and better clad.
Yet the ambitious mind lacks not fuel for its fires; the youths imagination peopled the woody solitudes with braver company than courts could boast vivid, unreal dream-people, whose shadowy presence increased his longing for the actuality. The very winds whispered mysteriously of coming triumphs, and as he listened his unrest grew greater.
"Then we'll go back this morning to the waterfall," he said, "and tell it that it's all come right. And now, we'll bow to those crazy people out there, those make-believe dream-people, who don't know that there is nothing real in this world but just you and me, and that we love each other." A dishevelled orderly bearing a tray with two glasses confronted Ranson at the door.
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