“Cyprian was a boy who carried with him through early life the wondering look of a dreamer, the eyes of one who sees things that are not visible to ordinary mortals, and invests the commonplace things of this world with qualities unsuspected by plainer folk – the eyes of a poet or a house agent.”

—  Saki , book Beasts and Super-Beasts

"The Dreamer"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

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