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You know he's badly in debt, and some way of course he sells lots of land and all, but you know father, John, and he just doesn't oh, he just keeps in debt." Barclay had been lapsing back into his revery as she spoke, but he pulled himself out and replied: "Oh, yes, Molly I know about father all right. Can't you make him straighten things out?" "Well, no. John, that's just it.
I would as lief Alwyn had struck me as offered me his gipsire, the ill-mannered, affectionate fellow! I must think I must think " And while still thinking, the door softly opened, and Warner himself, in a high state of abstraction and revery, stalked noiselessly into the room, on his way to the garden, in which, when musing over some new spring for his invention, he was wont to peripatize.
Only, as they had kept so long to each other, she supposed there must be love between them. Myrtle fell into a revery, with certain tableaux glowing along its perspectives which poor little Susan Posey would have shivered to look upon, if they could have been transferred from the purple clouds of Myrtle's imagination to the pale silvery mists of Susan's pretty fancies.
A man cutting brush in a vacant lot leaned on his axe to look after us. The sudden stopping of his "chop, chop" he too was staring at the vision of beauty before his eyes brought me out of my revery. "Nelly," I said, "your father will expect a letter from me. What shall I say?" "Tell him I am studying hard and like the city." "But about us about you and me?"
These gradual insinuations into his revery at length made him turn. A straight avenue of pear-shaped, fifteen-year-old maples led to the house, a massive colonial structure of wood that stretched across the shelf; and he had tightened the reins and started courageously up the avenue when he perceived that it ended in a circle on which there was no sign of a hitching-post.
If your steps have the right magic in them, you will encounter presently one of the ancient pumps like to the Town Pump from which Hawthorne drew that clear and sparkling little stream of revery and picture which has flowed into so many and such distant nooks, though the pump itself has now disappeared, having been directly in the line of the railroad.
His wife slept soundly; beside the bed was the infant's cradle. As his eyes fell on the latter, the rigid irony, now habitual to his features, relaxed; he bent over the cradle long and in deep silence. The mother's face, blended with the sire's, was stamped on the sleeping and cherub countenance before him; and as at length, rousing from his revery, he kissed it gently, he murmured,
At thirty-three I have worn out fortune and life; little pleasure could Laughton give me, brief pain the Bench. 'Fore Gad, the philosophy of the thing is on the whole against sour looks and the noose!" Thus deciding in the progress of his revery, he smiled, and changed his position.
Those letters, coming to me in a spot where maiden and love had been as myths of the bygone, phantasms and eidola only vouchsafed to the visions of fancy, had by little and little crept into secret corners of my heart; and out of the wrecks of a former romance, solitude and revery had gone far to build up the fairy domes of a romance yet to come.
Adieu, Edmond, adieu, and thank you." But the count did not answer. Mercedes opened the door of the study and had disappeared before he had recovered from the painful and profound revery into which his thwarted vengeance had plunged him.
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