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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: THE HAUNTED MND. What a singular moment is the first one, when you have hardly begun to recollect yourself, after starting from midnight slumber ? By unclosing your eyes so suddenly, you seem to have surprised the personages of your dream in full convocation round your bed, and catch one broad glance at them before they can flit into obscurity. Or, to vary the metaphor, you find yourself, for a single instant, wide awake in that realm of illusions, whither sleep has been the passport, and behold its ghostly inhabitants and wondrous scenery, with a perception of their strangeness, such as you never attain while the dream is undisturbed. The distant sound of a church clock is borne faintly on the wind. You question with yourself, half seriously, whether it has stolen to your waking ear from some gray tower, that stood within the precincts of your dream. While yet in suspense, another clock flings its heavy clang over the slumbering town, with so full and distinct a sound, and such a long murmur in the neighboring air, that you are certain it must proceed from the steeple at the nearest corner. You count the strokes ? one ? two, and there they cease, with a booming sound, like the gathering of a third stroke within the bell. If you could choose an hour of wakefulness out of the whole night, it would be this. Since your sober bedtime, at eleven, you have had rest enough to take off the pressure of yesterday's fatigue: while before you, till the sun comes from ' far Cathay' to brighten your window, there is almost the space of a summer night; one hour to be spent in thought, with the mind's eye half shut, and two in pleasant dreams, and two in that strangest of enjoyments, the forget- fulness alike of joy and woe. The moment of rising belongs to another period of time, and app...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459012158 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459012151 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $22.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 148 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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