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Updated: June 12, 2025
He simply could not tolerate the dreadful silence and stillness on the plain after his name had been called. "Pooh! Sheer sentimentality!" he said to himself, thinking of the vision half-dream, half-fancy. "Rotten sentimentality!" He asked: "Damn it! Am I an Englishman or am I not?" Like most Englishmen, he was much more an Englishman than he ever suspected. "What on earth are you doing, George?"
His dark eyes suddenly blazed into hers and she stumbled with an odd feeling of helplessness; realizing with a shock that brought her with a jerk out of the half-dream into which she had been lulled that this dance had not postponed the moment of decision, as she had looked to it to do.
But in his half-dream, he seemed to be kneeling again and reciting Latin words, words he had heard last when his mother was approaching her end.
He spoke quietly, but with determination and a full knowledge of all the danger that threatened. He glanced at Sylvia, who, coming back from her half-dream, had risen to her feet. Then he walked to the door, because the "King" was ever alert in the face of danger. "What is it?" Sylvia asked of Harley.
As she sat there, her Bible on her knee, her strained unseeing gaze resting on the garden and the sea, a sort of hallucination took possession of her. It seemed to her that she saw the form of the Son of man passing over the misty slope in front of her, that the dim majestic figure turned and beckoned. In her half-dream she fell on her knees. 'Master! she cried in agony, 'I cannot leave him!
And now, as I think of those dear voices, and feel once more that loving touch on my shoulder, there comes back to me that verse from the Psalm George read at our parting "For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." It is all like a half-dream to me now. I travelled on and on, always down the valley. Sometimes I fancied I heard men shouting, and I would reply.
"Keep her straight to the waves, whatever you do! it's all up if she gets broadside on!" said the former to Charlie. And so for another half-hour we laboured in silence; then almost suddenly the daylight faded, and darkness fell over the bay. I rowed on doggedly in a half-dream.
I went but the other day to have a peep, and, behold! brood and parent-birds were gone, the nest was empty, Adam's visitors had departed. In the corners of my bedroom window I have a couple of swallows' nests, and nothing can be pleasanter in these summer mornings than to lie in a kind of half-dream, conscious all the time of the chatterings and endearments of the man-loving creatures.
"With half-shut eyes, ever you seem Falling asleep in a half-dream." "But, my lord, those exquisite beings in gossamer robes! surely you see them!" "I see the play of the moonbeams, my love, and nothing more." But the wife stood transfixed. One beautiful fairy, taller and fairer than her companions, had wings, and floated through the dance, scarcely touching the earth.
The mottled crotons, the yellow allamanda and pink hibiscus bushes, the clump of Eucharist lilies, the great trailing masses of orchids that hung among the red flowers of the stately flamboyant tree by the green hedge, joined to make me forget the midwinter date on the calendar. The time seemed in my half-dream July in New York or August in Washington.
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