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After that, what with dozing and what with castle-building, he lost himself for a long time, so that there was a touch of morning on the eastward rim of the desolate Campagna when he crept to bed. Mrs General sent up her compliments in good time next day, and hoped he had rested well after this fatiguing journey.
A slap on the back awoke him, and turning round, he saw the genial, good-humoured face of one of his fellow-monitors, Hugh Lillyston. "Well, Julian, dreaming as usual castle-building, and all that sort of thing, eh?" "No; I was thinking how soon one will have to bid good-bye to dear old Harton. How well the chapel looks from here, doesn't it? and the church towering above it."
It was not until some hours of such thinking of more castle-building than the sober-spirited girl had done in her whole life before that she became painfully conscious that in all this dreaming of her future as the friend of the parishioners and the house-mother, Lurton himself was a figure in the background of her thoughts. He did not excite any enthusiasm in her heart.
G. "Either by cephalic snuff or castle-building!" A. "Do you approve of castle-building as a frequent exercise?" G. "Life were not life without it! 'Give me the joy that sickens not the heart, Give me the wealth that has no wings to fly." A. "I reckon myself one of the best aërial architects now living, and nil me pænitet hujus."
But the very reserve and discretion with which her ladyship spoke a reserve unusual with her, and unsuited to the natural warmth of her manner and temper might have betrayed her to an acute and cool observer. Vivian, however, at this instant, was too much intent upon castle-building to admit any other ideas.
Of some castle-building one cannot say so much. Character is assuredly corrupted by avaricious dreams of marriage as a road to material opulence and luxury. There is, indeed, no end to the depraved broodings which may come to an empty and undirected mind. If the emotions and the intellect are not tended and trained, they will run to an evil and evil-propagating seed.
The children built a castle, of course, but castle-building is rather poor fun when you have no hope of the swishing tide ever coming in to fill up the moat and wash away the drawbridge, and, at the happy last, to wet everybody up to the waist at least.
"I wonder if that means anything?" thought Mr. Power, with a keen glance from the distant man to the busy woman close at hand. "It might be a helpful, happy thing for both, if poor David only could forget." He had time for no more castle-building, for a startled robin flew away with a shrill chirp, and Christie looked up. "Oh, I'm so glad!" she said, rising quickly.
The only daughter of Oliver Silverpenny will be a suitable wife for the only son of Thomas Goldencalf; though I give thee notice, boy, that thou wilt be cut off with a competency; so keep thy head clear of extravagant castle-building, learn economy in season, and, above all, make no debts." Anna laughed as I humorously imitated the well-known intonations of Mr.
The blue lake was about the only part true to nature; and even that should have had a foot-note to state that it was generally lashed into high, unnavigable waves, by a chronic nor'-wester. No: there was nothing for it but to go home again to the little run which had seemed such a mere paddock in our eyes, whilst we indulged in castle-building over 100,000 acres of country.
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