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Who could have believed that the sight of him so would ever have rejoiced me!" Adela, worn with fatigue, sobbed, "Oh! Oh!" "By the way, Sir Twickenham called, and wished to see you," said Arabella curiously. "Oh! so weary!" the fair girl ejaculated, half-dreaming that she saw herself as she threw back her head and gazed at stars and clouds. "We met Captain Gambier in town."
And oh! she was going to London to-morrow London, which she so much wished to see Westminster Abbey, British Museum, All Saints, National Gallery, no end of new dresses. Half-waking, half-dreaming, she spent the night which seemed long enough, and the light hours of the summer morning seemed still longer, before she could call it a reasonable time for getting up.
Grute was the filthy stableman; and the landlord, half-dreaming, ran off to fetch him a most unfortunate circumstance, as it put the rogue upon his guard, and prepared him for the part which it was necessary for his safety that he should play. The landlord returned in two minutes, dragging Grute in with him.
Then she went on in a half-dreaming kind of way, as if trying to recall it to herself. "I didn't quite dream, but it all seemed to be real. I only wanted to be here in this spot. I don't know why, for I was afraid of something, I don't know what. I remember, though I suppose I was asleep, passing through the streets and over the bridge.
I seem as if entering a cave, that grows colder and darker at every step, and no gleam shines at the further end, indicating that I may pass through it and out into the light again." Thus letting his fancy wander at will, at times half-dreaming and half-waking, he passed the hours that elapsed before the boat touched at a point in the Highlands of the Hudson, his destination.
The light grew stronger all about her, the mists rolled slowly away from her clogged brain, leaving only a drowsing languor that was infinitely restful to her tired senses. And then while she lay half-dreaming and wholly content, a remorseless hand began to bathe her face and head with ice-cold water. She awoke reluctantly, even resentfully. "Don't!" she entreated like a child. "I am so tired.
Lyon's return from the South relief, that he was deceived in a matter which might involve the most serious consequences. But this feeling did not very long remain; and she became the subject of rapidly alternating states. Fanny remained alone until the summons to tea startled her from a sad, half-dreaming state of mind.
When she was removed to her lodgings, and able to converse, she asked me who it was that had rescued her. "Mr. Kittredge," I said. "The same I met on the beach?" "The same." She smiled in a faint, half-dreaming way, and turned away her face. She thought I did not know her secret.
To this day, when I am passing them, the spirit of those days lays its hand upon me, and I have to pause a few moments and, half-dreaming, half-longing, run over the titles. Nearly all my copies of the English classics I have picked up at these curbstone stalls. How much more they mean to me than new books of later years! Here, for instance, are two volumes of Dr.
How it was I dinna knaw; but I rather think that I had fallen asleep, and that something or other had scared the nag, and I had slipped out o' the saddle. I mind o' lying very cauld and uncomfortable, half-dreaming, half-waking, and I daresay, more than three parts the worse o' drink.
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