The Dreamer of Dreams
12th cent. de France Marie
9781465554765
149 pages
Library of Alexandria
Overview
And I dream in my waking dreams, and deep in the dreams of sleep. Fiona MacLeod. Consternation reigned in King Wanda’s castle,—the great Northern King before whose will so many trembled, before whose smile so many crouched in expectation. His favourite painter had suddenly lost his wits and refused to finish the picture he had begun on the walls of the ancient hall where all the great banquets were held—a beautiful hall, where a frieze was being conjured into life by the incomparable art of Eric Gundian, a quite young man of wonderful talent, who had been discovered by the King one sunshiny morning. Each day that Eric Gundian had spent within the King’s walls his reputation had grown, and he had, all unconsciously, become the Court favourite. His every whim had been an order; and his gay handsome face had been loved by old and young. The creeping jealousies around him had died down of themselves before the sweetness of his smile and the wonder of his art
