[Jeremy by Hugh Walpole]@TWC D-Link bookJeremy CHAPTER III 34/52
He had once had a wonderful dream, in which he had been at a meal that included every thing that he had most loved--fish-cakes, sausages, ices, strawberry jam, sponge-cake, chocolates, and scrambled eggs--and he had been able to eat, and eat, and had never been satisfied, and had never felt sick--a lovely dream. He often thought of it.
And now in the same bewildering fashion he found his boots and cap and coat and then, deliberately keeping from him the thought of the Pantomime lest he should suddenly wake up, he said: "I'm ready, Uncle." Samuel Trefusia looked at him. "You're a strange kid," he said; "you take everything so quietly--but, thank God, I don't understand children." "There's Hamlet," said Jeremy, wondering whether perhaps the dream would extend to his friend.
"I suppose he can't come too." "No, he certainly can't," said Uncle Samuel grimly. "And there's Rose.
She'll wonder where I've gone." "I've told her.
Don't you worry.
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