For instance, Thomas Sims, the cabman, was one of them, and," he added colouring, "forgive me for saying so, but you are another.

I knew it at once, the moment I saw you, and that is what made me feel so friendly." "How very odd!" she exclaimed, "and how delightful.

Because, you see--well never mind----" He looked at her expectantly, but as she said no more, went on.
"Then now and again I see places before I really do see them.

For example, I think that presently we shall pass along a hillside with great mountain slopes above and below us covered with dark trees.
Opposite to us also, running up to three peaks with a patch of snow on the centre peak, but not quite at the top." He closed his eyes, and added, "Yes, and there is a village at the bottom of the valley by a swift-running stream, and in it a small white church with a spire and a gilt weathercock with a bird on it.

Then," he continued rapidly, "I can see the house where I am going to live, with the Pasteur Boiset, an old white house with woods above and all about it, and the beautiful lake beneath, and beyond, a great mountain.