half-fancy

Updated: May 13, 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?"

Arnold Bennett - The Roll-Call