Bildungsromans; Christian fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Having gazed at her in silence for awhile, Walter said, “Come and sit by
me, Molly. I want to tell the dream I have been having.”
She came at once, glad to get out of the sun. But she sat where he could
still see her, and waited.
“I think I remember reaching the railway, Molly, but I remember nothing
after that until I thought I was in a coal-pit, with a great roaring
everywhere about me. I was shut up forever by an explosion, and the
tumbling subterranean waters were coming nearer and nearer! They never
came, but they were always coming! Suddenly some one took me by the arm,
and pulled me out of the pit. Then I was on the hill above the pit, and
had to get to the top of it. But it was in the teeth of a snow-storm! My
breath was very short, and I could hardly drag one foot up after the
other. All at once there was an angel with wings by my side, and I knew
it was Molly. I never wondered that she had wings. I only said to
myself, ‘How clever she must be to stow them away when she doesn’t want
them!’ Up and up we toiled, and the way was very long. But when I got
too tired, you stood before me, and I leaned against you, and you folded
your wings about my head, and so I got breath to go on again. And I
tried to say, ‘How can you be so kind to me! I never was good to you!’”
“You dreamed quite wrong there, Walter!” interposed Molly. “You were
always good to me--except, perhaps, when I asked you too many
questions!”
“Your questions were too wise for me, Molly! If I had been able to
answer them, this trouble would never have come upon me. But I do wish I
could tell you how delightful the dream was, for all the wind and the
snow! I remember exactly how I felt, standing shadowed by your wings,
and leaning against you!”
Molly’s face flushed, and a hazy look came into her eyes, but she did
not turn them away.
He stopped, and lay brooding on his dream.
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