The Monarch of MincingLane A Novel Author:William Black General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Original Publisher: Tinsley Brothers Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations a... more »nd there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. DREAMS AND VISIONS. In one of the saddest of his songs Heine bids his sweetheart lay her hand on his heart, and listen to the knocking in the small chamber within. There is a cunning and wicked carpenter living there, he tells her, and the carpenter is working and hammering at a coffin. The carpenter hammers and knocks by day and by night; and soon the coffin will be ready, and sleep near. Is it true, then, that Love, which makes.. the heart beat faster, is the colleague of Death ? Lilian began to dream dreams and see visions during the long evenings up at Hampstead; and in these Trawnbilder -- gazing on which she was withdrawn from the world around her, and wholly unconscious of it -- she seemedto see Love and Death together; the one angry and passionate and wretched, the other calm and serious and sweet. And it appeared to her that Love, whom she feared, had taken her by the hand, and led her a little way, and confided her to Death, whose pale and earnest face was full of kindness to her. 'Ye maun go to Torquay,' said Jims abruptly, looking at her. ' To Torquay !' she said, with a blush of colour mantling into the wan cheeks, and a wistful light appearing in the dark-blue eyes. ' Yes, indeed!' said Mrs. Lawson, with no less decision. ' Ye want something to put new life into your blood. Ye've been sitting and moping here until your hands are thin and blue-white like paper, and your eyes are sunken and dark,...« less