“Well, madam,” replies Bloculocus, “do you know what might be said of those who pass these judgments?”

“That they dream wide awake,” says Mirzoza.

“Very well, madam,” continued Bloculocus; “and nothing is more philosophical or more exact in a thousand circumstances than this familiar expression: I believe you dream : for nothing is more common than men who fancy that they reason, and in reality only dream with their eyes open.”

“ ’Tis of those,” interrupted the favorite, “one may literally say, that their whole life is but a dream.”

“I cannot too much admire, madam,” replied Bloculocus, “the ease with which you comprehend such abstruse notions. Our dreams are but precipitate judgments which succeed each other with incredible rapidity, and by bringing objects together, whose sole connection is by very distant qualities, compose one whimsical image.”