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Updated: May 4, 2025
Jeremy's thoughts went drifting off into half-dreams as the soft black water lulled him with its unending whisper. His head nodded. He raised it, striving, he knew not why, to keep awake. The gentle water-sounds crept in again, soothing his drowsy ears. He was close to sleep so close that another moment would have taken him across the border.
The train had stopped in the middle of a charming landscape. I was in the half-consciousness of an interrupted sleep; and ideas, as yet half-dreams, hazy and diffuse, hovered between myself and reality. I experienced the undefinable and confused sensation of awakening. A river flowed by the side of the railway, clear, around a bright and verdant island.
"A little better than usual, but I'm so dead tired when I wake up I don't seem to have closed my eyes." Jack's nervous trouble had taken the turn of insomnia -that bugbear of physician and patient alike and while the others had their night hours filled with dreams, or half-dreams, of pleasant anticipation, poor Jack tumbled and tossed restlessly.
As I was lying in bed this morning, enjoying one of those half-dreams, half-reveries, which are so pleasant in the country, when the birds are singing about the window, and the sunbeams peeping through the curtains, I was roused by the sound of music.
Sometimes in those terrible half-dreams in the dark of early morn when suddenly waked by conscience to hold a tete-a-tete with her, he would imagine himself walking into the bank, and encountering the eyes of all the men on his way to his uncle, whom next to his father he feared then find himself running for refuge to the bosom of his mother.
As I lay there thinking, wondering what might be my fate before another nightfall, seeing constantly in my half-dreams the fair face of a woman, which made me more of a coward than I had ever felt myself before, I was partially aroused by the droning tones of a voice close at hand. Lifting myself on one elbow I glanced curiously around to see where it originated, what was occurring.
And there went a strange noise all about me; and the Master Monstruwacan to seem to hold me up, and to beckon to some that did be to my back. And lo! there came a blackness, and the gentleness of arms about mine armour.... And I to come presently to quietness and to half-dreams; and did alway to seem that I carried Mine Own Maid in mine arms.
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