Fate the Fiddler
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217473552
Paperback|9780217473552
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. AN ARMY OF OCCUPATION Somers had lain that night through in a very ecstasy of recuperative slumber. Born of that order of nervous sleepers whose nights are made, their lives- long, hideous and enervating, or blissful and healing, by dreams that make record in phantasmal, huge exaggeration of the mind's complexion in the day, he had to-night been lapped in oblivion or had dreamed dreams of happy augury. And, as it happens with light sleepers in the open air, the voices of the night spoke to an unsleeping sentry in his ear, and waked him now and then, to rise on his elbow, with all his senses crystal-clear and his muscles strung and ready for surprises. Thrice he thus raised himself and looked about him?at his sleeping mates, at the watching trees and the throbbing stars above them?and lay down again, to taste each time, with an exactly conscious, yet purely animal delight, how sleep, like a mother, re-gathered him in her arms. Out of a deep, delicious nowhere he had come at last upon a stretch larger than many worlds'-lengths, of swelling moorland, with no sky overhead, but only the great twilight that is in dreams. Before him, the hill was strewn and heaped with blocks of unhewn stone; and he had come, the appointed builder of the house that was to rise out of this disorder. In utter confidence he was there to build, waiting only for guidance in the plan and order of his work; he was listening for a singleword, to be spoken by the architect. That spoken, he would be given his plan, and fall instantly to work. Beneath his unaided hands, then, a palace would rise from this confusion. Still waiting that word, he found himself awake? yet with the reality about him sweetened by the clear promise of his dream?sitting up in his blankets and propped upon his hands, a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217473552 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217473555 |
| Weight | 0.72 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 218 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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