It must be a very dear and intimate reality for which people will be content to give up a dream.
When the sun was fairly up, however, it was quite another thing.

The heterogeneous population, inhabiting the lower floor of the old tower, and the other extensive regions of the palace, were now willing to tell all they knew, and imagine a great deal more.

The amiability of these Italians, assisted by their sharp and nimble wits, caused them to overflow with plausible suggestions, and to be very bounteous in their avowals of interest for the lost Hilda.

In a less demonstrative people, such expressions would have implied an eagerness to search land and sea, and never rest till she were found.

In the mouths that uttered them they meant good wishes, and were, so far, better than indifference.