The hopes that had gathered round international movements, the cosmopolitan dreams of common action between the peoples across the barriers of States and Governments, seem to have vanished into limbo; and the enthusiastic dreamers of yesterday are the disillusioned soldiers and spectators of to-day.
Charpentier accompanied him, too brave to abandon the enterprise, but too much a dreamer to become a commander.
When the dreamer is a poet, the other fellow is an artist.
Certainly this dreamer is the most ineligible of them all.