Don-A-Dreams

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Don-A-Dreams (1906)
by Harvey J. O'Higgins

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He did not know what the composition was, or who had written it; and he was not curious to know. It was magically hers; and it spoke to him of her in the rise and fall of a melody that hung and trembled and rose plaintively above the rocking chords of a flowing bass. ... and trembled in him till it seemed to him that his very soul thrilled and was shaken.

It faded away in a fluttering and soft appeal of single notes, and was lost in a polite applause that thanked her with admiring comment.

Miss Kimball had been watching the changes of his face. She asked, "Do you like Chopin?"

He looked up at the piano, transparently pale, his eyes burning; and he replied—without altogether understanding what she had asked—"I don't . . . know him."

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DON-A-DREAMS

A STORY OF
LOVE AND YOUTH

HARVEY J. O'HIGGINS
AUTHOR OF "THE SMOKE-EATERS"

LONDON: DUCKWORTH & CO.
HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1906

TO

"MISTRESS ANNE"

TO REMIND HER OF THE DAYS WHEN SHE, TOO, WAS GRAVE WITH YOUNG CARE AND WEIGHTED DOWN WITH THE PROBLEMS OF A WHOLE UNIVERSE; TO RECALL TO HER SOME OF THOSE TEAR-BRIGHT DREAMS OF THE FUTURE WHOSE REALIZATION IS ALREADY A POSSIBILITY ONLY OF THE PAST; TO BE TO HER A SOUVENIR AND FOND REMEMBRANCER OF HER OWN YOUTH.

H. J. O'H.

CONTENTS

PART PAGE

I.

The Make-Believer

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3

II.

The Day-Dreamer

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61

III.

The Idealist

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175

IV.

The Visionary

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305

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

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