Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 80: what you’re looking at

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72 HER ROYAL LOVER. mind survives this numbness, remains alone awake, and acts still CHAPTER X. A HORRIBLE DREAM. However profound was the sleep of Mineleko, it was not able to resist a dull noise which re-echoed in the corridor scarcely an hour after he had fallen asleep. He trembles, he is agitated, he wishes to rise; but his languid limbs refuse to serve him; he falls back inanimate. In the troubled sleep which oppresses him, a dream, really a dream this time, takes possession of him. He is aboard a ship, it seems to him that in his head re-echoes every movement of the pitching and the rolling that the surge of the waves impress upon a vessel. It is like a jerking sound which, after a short pause, recommences more wearisome. Nevertheless the dream continues still to unfold itself. The vapor mutters, hisses, advances with all the rapidity of the engine. Its furnaces, propelled by an incessant fire, send a black and thick smoke that sputters in waves from the large high smokestack. Geometrical lines, plunging profoundly in the eddies of the waves, chase precipitately far from each other, leaving behind them a large and hollow furrow, edged with foam. In the east arises, soft and majestic, the light of the sun; all is flooded with it. The moon, with pale extinguished rays, descends slowly to the horizon; the polar heavens still constellated with their in- numerable stars, sheds everywhere a magical en- GoOomiic JOO <Sp(E(o)