On the other hand he was less easily seen, but the midnight there was so still and deserted, that that was of small consequence.

In a few minutes they were out together in a lane as dark as pitch, compelled now to keep to the roads, for there was not light enough to see the pocket-compass by which the surgeon sometimes steered across country.
Could we learn what waking-dreams haunted the boyhood of a man, we should have a rare help toward understanding the character he has developed.

Those of the young Faber were, almost exclusively, of playing the prince of help and deliverance among women and men.

Like most boys that dream, he dreamed himself rich and powerful, but the wealth and power were for the good of his fellow-creatures.

If it must be confessed that he lingered most over the thanks and admiration he set to haunt his dream-steps, and hover about his dream-person, it must be remembered that he was the only real person in the dreams, and that he regarded lovingly the mere shadows of his fellow-men.