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Updated: May 1, 2025
Will you chew it?" "No," said Mr Gregory, taking out a little silver matchbox; "I've plenty of lights, quite dry." He struck one, and the two men lit their half cigars and sat in the sun smoking, while Mark watched them, the sun begetting a delicious sense of content and satisfaction, making him half-close his eyes as he listened to their conversation. "Where are we, major! Can't exactly say.
After she had eaten, for some reason Missy felt a craving to wander off somewhere and sit still a while. She would have loved to stretch out in the grass, and half-close her eyes, and gaze up at the bits of shining, infinite blue of the sky, and dream. But there was Raymond at her elbow and she wanted, even more than she wanted to be alone and dream, Raymond to be there at her elbow.
As I dare say you've been told, the way to get at the essence of a landscape is to half-close your eyes you get the dominant notes that way, and shed the details. Well, I allowed I'd go one better, and see the whole show in motion. Have you ever seen a biograph or a cinematograph, as some call it?" "'Course I 'ave," said Tilda. "There was one in Maggs's Circus."
Then I rouse myself, and the picture fades. Once more I half-close my eyes, and cast about to try and recall the dream, but it has gone. I rise to my feet, only to fall back comfortably into the armchair. "There! You are failing asleep again, little Nicolas," says Mamma. "You had better go to by-by."
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