The star dreamer A romance

The Star Dreamer: A Romance by Agnes and Egerton Castle is the story of a woman’s influence first published in 1903.. Excerpt:And do you not wish to know� asked Ellinor “what has brought me with the dawn to these gardens?�He had been watching silently by her side—watching her as here she snipped a bundle of leaves and there a sheaf of blossoms and mechanically extending the basket that she might lay them therein. Now after a fashion of his to which she had grown well accustomed he let fall a glance upon her as one bringing himself back from a distance.She repeated her question with a little pretence of impatience.“I do not think that I wondered to see you� he answered slowly.—Fastidious as he was in his garb and every exterior detail that concerned him it was all as nothing Ellinor had learned to know compared to his mental fastidiousness. A silent man he was but when he spoke no words could serve him but such as could clothe the truth to the most exquisite nicety. Could anyone have been more ill equipped for the battle of life?“I was standing on the tower� he went on “watching the withdrawal of the stars and the rise of another day. It is not often that I look to the earth. When the 110stars go then you see the world is blank to me. But this morning I know not why when the skies grew faint I did look upon the earth and found it very fair. And so I stood and watched and saw the colours grow. Then you came forth into the midst of them; and somehow I thought it was as if you were part of the beauty of it all—part of the dawn; as if you were something that the earth and I myself had unconsciously been waiting for to complete the whole. Thus you see Ellinor it did not enter into my mind to ask why you had come. I sought you� he smiled as he spoke “also indeed I know not why.�