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As soon as we arrived there, I made a more thorough examination, dressed the arm carefully, and was soon utterly oblivious of the fatigues of the previous forty-eight hours. The sound of Jerry's voice, as he related the story of his adventures the night previous, awoke me in the early morning. I, dreamingly, heard him say,
Waldo said dreamingly: "It is a marvellous thing that one soul should have power to cause another." She heard the words as she heard the beating of the horses' hoofs; her thoughts ran on in their own line. "They say, 'God sends the little babies. Of all the dastardly revolting lies men tell to suit themselves, I hate that most.
"Nay," answered Godwin, dreamingly; "we can live on to save her. See, these are her tokens the cross for me, the blood-stained sword for you, and about its hilt the chain, a symbol of her slavery. Now both of us must bear the cross; both of us must wield the sword, and both of us must cut the chain, or if we fail, then die." "You rave," said Wulf; "and little wonder. Here, drink water.
"You are like him." Then she added softly, dreamingly, as though half speaking to herself, "You remind me of so many things at home!" The next minute she had turned to present Derby to her husband, and the conversation became general. But, finally, in a pause, Nina said, "Jack, tell Uncle Sandro what father sent you over to do. Or is it a secret?"
She seated herself on a bench under a tree, not far from the wall, and looked up dreamingly and thoughtfully at the patches of blue sky visible through the tree-tops. Her whole soul was sunk in reminiscence.
So he said to himself, "I had better not play in the house, or I shall wake them out of their first sleep." He brought out his violin, got among some trees near the stable-yard, and tried to soothe his sorrowful heart. He played sadly, sweetly and dreamingly.
Like the refrain of an infectious song, the musical phrase would not be banished from Tim's mind and lips, and so the tough, rough Irishman and the gentle exile from the Flowery Land went on their way, scarce conscious of the grimy miles, both dreamingly hailing the jewel in the lotus.
The aged couple went to their garden after the morning meal, and awaited the appearance of the youth. "I sent him to gather ferns to plant beside these rocks: he surely cannot be all this time gathering them," remarked the woman. The husband went to the edge of the wood whither she had sent him, and found him lying upon the ground, looking dreamingly at the skies.
He was one of the "prominent men" now, a somebody, as he had never been and never could be in the travesty of home that had been his father's giving. Upon his life here rested the possibilities of the future toward which he looked dreamingly sometimes when his notes were written up, and the laundry accounts checked.
Musing on these strange things, she unclasped, scarcely conscious of the act, a gold necklace, which Huldbrand had lately purchased for her of a travelling trader; half dreamingly she drew it along the surface of the water, enjoying the light glimmer it cast upon the evening-tinted stream.
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