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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1879. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... mention this instance to give the standard of my heroism. It was equal to death, to a noble one of course, but not to pain. Now if any giggling schoolgirl reads this, I know what she thinks of me. I know she thinks she is not and never could be so foolish. That may be, child; you live in a wiser age than was mine, and as your age is so you are--a coolheaded young lady who talks slang and scorns romance. That may be, child, that may be; but I will tell you what you do and what I never did. You build up your little castle in the air about Mr. Johnson. He half squeezed your hand last night, and forthwith you are arrayed in white, and the orange-blossom nods on your brow, and you are spending your honeymoon by the lakes. My dear child, better dream of being Arria or Joan of Arc herself than this. You see when dreams belong wholly to Dreamland they lose half their mischievous power. Of course they are very foolish, and a terrible loss of time, but they have this great salve--they lead to nothing. The dream which weaves itself around reality, in which, with time, reality gets so blended that the dreamer cannot well tell which is which, is purely and simply pestilential. That grain of sense to which I have alluded, and a spark of prudence with it, saved me from this. Of course I too had my temptations, and sometimes they took the fascinating aspect of Mr. Johnson, and sometimes they did not. But no sooner did my careless foot tread on this serpent than I started back amazed and frightened. I would have fallen in love with Poetus himself, though he was but a poor thing, rather than indulge in so dangerous a pastime. It was all very well to play with fancy in her fair Eden, but I knew it would never do to treat these flowery plains as if they were this firm ston...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154160963
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 214
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154160963
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 390 gr


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