If he has not, tell him what you will or what you can
contrive. I must go. It came a second time, and all so plain. I
saw him; I tell you I saw him. Ah, I must see him again. I swear
that I will only see him once. He's in danger--I know he's in
danger; or what does the dream mean? Bernenstein will go with me,
and I shall see him. Do, do forgive me: I can't stay, the dream
was so plain." Thus she ended, seeming, poor lady, half frantic
with the visions that her own troubled brain and desolate heart
had conjured up to torment her. I did not know that she had
before told Mr. Rassendyll himself of this strange dream; though
I lay small store by such matters, believing that we ourselves
make our dreams, fashioning out of the fears and hopes of to-day
what seems to come by night in the guise of a mysterious
revelation. Yet there are some things that a man cannot
understand, and I do not profess to measure with my mind the ways
of God.
However, not why the queen went, but that she had gone, concerned
us. We had returned to the house now, and James, remembering that
men must eat though kings die, was getting us some breakfast. In
fact, I had great need of food, being utterly worn out; and they,
after their labors, were hardly less weary.
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