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As a touch of fantasy, however slight, is a most welcome ingredient in a Short-story, and as the American takes more thought of things unseen than the Englishman, we may have here an incomplete explanation of the superiority of the American Short-story over the English. "John Bull has suffered the idea of the Invisible to be very much fattened out of him," says Mr.
Can we love and not know it? Tell me that, for I too would fain know. There are so many sorts of love. Can one always judge aright?" "Dost thou feel that too, my Magda? Verily, I have thought that Master Cole " Magda put her hand upon her sister's lips; her face was all one great blush. "Nay, nay; that is but fantasy. He has a kindly word for all who please his eye.
The Sunday night fantasy he much preferred. It was rowdy, but it was artistic. But beauty may be dishonoured, it cannot be vulgarised. Even in pseudo-Parisianisms Cassy was a gem. A doubt though, one that had already visited him, returned. Was the game worth the possible scandal? But now Cassy was getting back at him. "To stand about with the most fortunate of mortals ought to be a shape of bliss.
How scant the space between these vast extremes. The recollection of my strange visions which, I confess, somewhat affected me on my first waking, I put off from me at once. What were they, after all, but dreams, "begot of nothing but vain fantasy?" I reasoned thus, philosophically, reflectively, rationally, within myself, as I dressed.
The fantasy of the wood-nymph underwent translation in Ingolby's mind; she was now like a mortal, who, having been transformed, at immortal dictate was returning to mortal state again. To heighten the illusion, he thought he heard faint singing in the depths of the wood.
"It's most interesting," admitted Bors. "But " "Now Harms," said Morgan, "reads news-reports. He's specialized on those brought back by Gwenlyn and by you. He guesses at the news behind the news and he knows when he's hit it. He'll tell Madame Porvis the facts, she'll weave them into a fantasy and they'll spread like wildfire. Of course she can't plant new subjects in people's minds.
The conception of popular poetry seemed to lead like a bridge over this problem a deeper and more original power than that of every single creative individual was said to have become active; the happiest people, in the happiest period of its existence, in the highest activity of fantasy and formative power, was said to have created those immeasurable poems.
So terribly did the teeth crunch and grind together that it seemed they must crush into fragments. A little later he suddenly stiffened out. The hands clenched and the face set with the savage resolution of the dream. The eyelids trembled from the shock of the fantasy, seemed about to open, but did not. Instead, the lips muttered: "No; no! And once more no. I won't peach."
He was going to be strong and make everyone miserable. If she had been asked to propose any kind of a plan for the future, her answer would have been, when denuded of side issues and fantasy, simply that she could see nothing better than simple drifting. As yet she could not anticipate, and it roused in her a kind of jealousy that Joyselle had so soon begun to think of Théo.
He paused with a smile. "Then ?" said Catherine, leaning slightly forward. "Then that human being may cut our thread prematurely, and down we go to death." Catherine drew in her breath sharply. "But that again," continued Berrand. "Is man or woman not the fantasy you call Fate?"
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