England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Manners and customs -- Fiction
“Oh, be off with you--both of you!” cried Rhadamanthus.
“That’s sensible,” said Dolly. “Because you know, there really isn’t any
harm in poor Mr. Carter.”
Rhadamanthus vanished. Dolly and I went inside.
“I suppose everything will be very different here,” said Dolly, and I
think she sighed.
Whether it were or not I don’t know, for just then I awoke, and found
myself saying aloud, in answer to the dream voice and the dream face
(which had not gone altogether with the dream).
“Not everything”--a speech that, I agree, I ought not to have made, even
though it were only in a dream.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Dolly Dialogues, by Anthony Hope
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