A few seconds only had elapsed since the last word had been uttered aloud in the kitchen, and Mrs Verloc was staring already at the
vision of an episode not more than a fortnight old.
Every minute she had expected that it would vanish and give place to another
vision; but the man, instead of dissolving like a shadow, again approached her, and said in an agitated voice, "Now you may drink."
But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other
vision in my mind, just quietly trusting to it to come true."
Rosamond in her agitated absorption had not noticed the silently advancing figure; but when Dorothea, after the first immeasurable instant of this
vision, moved confusedly backward and found herself impeded by some piece of furniture, Rosamond was suddenly aware of her presence, and with a spasmodic movement snatched away her hands and rose, looking at Dorothea who was necessarily arrested.
And in the worst of it
visions continued to flash and sparkle in his brain--long lines of railroad track that simmered across the desert; rurales and American constables, prisons and calabooses; tramps at water tanks--all the squalid and painful panorama of his odyssey after Rio Blanca and the strike.
Ay, this was the
vision that was sent me as I lay in pain and misery among the bones of my dead in the ashes of my kraal.
The
vision had begun when my father was speaking of our going to Prague.
through the savage gloom there came to him a stately maiden, and took him by the hand and led him on through devious paths, unknown to any man, until upon the darkness of the wood there dawned a light such as the light of day was unto but as a little lamp unto the sun; and, in that wondrous light, our way-worn knight saw as in a dream a
vision, and so glorious, so fair the
vision seemed, that of his bleeding wounds he thought no more, but stood as one entranced, whose joy is deep as is the sea, whereof no man can tell the depth.
Turning towards the hearth, where the two logs had fallen apart, and sent forth only a red uncertain glimmer, he seated himself on his fireside chair, and was stooping to push his logs together, when, to his blurred
vision, it seemed as if there were gold on the floor in front of the hearth.
What really decided me to go to sea was that I had caught my first
vision of the death-road which John Barleycorn maintains for his devotees.
He curved his bushy tail around to cover them, and at the same time he saw a
vision. There was nothing strange about it.
To you only do I tell the enigma that I SAW--the
vision of the lonesomest one.--
Again turning to the window he watched the lighted rooms within his
vision, and presently his view was rewarded by the sight of a knight coming within the scope of the narrow casement of a nearby chamber.
At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer
vision, -what will be his reply?
And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow -- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a
vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone?
