…or a ‘Tec?”I see I must explain myself,” she said, pulling out a chair from the table and sitting down.”Though I’m living in a big house in Park Lane, Mr. Bailey, I’m a poor woman. My husband has all the money, and not I.” “That doesn’t sound quite fair, ma’am,” I muttered, not knowing exactly what other remark to make.”Fair! Of course it isn’t fair!” she snapped. “Nothing is fair, is it? But come, I’m not here to expatiate on injustice. Have you ever been hard up, Mr. Bailey? You have. Good! Then you can sympathise with me. I am hard up— so hard up that I am anxious to sell my diamonds — a wedding present from my husband — and, being a wedding present and positively the only present he has ever given me, you can understand my difficulty. In short, I want to sell it, but dare…

…Dreaming that you’re skating symbolizes your ability to maintain a balance in your life. You’re using your own energy, determination and will to progress in the journey of your life and you’re working towards your goal. Dreaming that you’re ice skating indicates the satisfaction of your current actions. Ice skating also means that you must have more confidence in yourself….

…Dreaming that you are skating on ice, foretells that you are in danger of losing employment, or valuable articles. If you break through the ice, you will have unworthy friends to counsel you. To see others skating, foretells that disagreeable people will connect your name in scandal with some person who admires you. To see skates, denotes discord among your associates. To see young people skating on roller skates, foretells that you will enjoy good health, and feel enthusiastic over the pleasures you are able to contribute to others….

…To dream of skating over smooth ice, and gliding along without much effort, is a sign of success and good luck: if you are skating with ladies, it foretells that your love matters will go smoothly; if the ice he broken or lumpy, it denotes difficulties; and if you imagine you fall down, you will probably experience a misfortune or have great trouble. Lucky lottery dream numbers – 4, 7, 28….

Dreaming of your purse being filled with diamonds and new bills, denotes for you associations where {Good Cheer} is the watchword, and harmony and tender loves will make earth a beautiful place. See Pocket-book.

The cards that are being played in a dream represents the fact that you should be aware about your financial situation. If you have are playing with the cards, it could also mean that bad things might happen to you if you won’t be careful. If you see the club of cards while playing with the cards, then great fortune is on your way. When you see the diamonds, great financial growth. If see hearts, luck in love. If see spades, failure and troubles.

…or other person is wearing, because it shows the better piece of jewelry, the better opinion about yourself you have. For example, the cheap piece of jewelry shows that you do not value yourself enough, you think you are not worth good and valuable things in life. If the jewelry is expensive and beautifully shaped, it shows that you respect yourself and have a good opinion about yourself. Sometimes the piece of jewelry such as the ring could represent the commitment and love the one has to another. The specific types of the jewelry have different meanings, therefore the dreamer should look into it deeper; what kind of stones or diamonds it has, what kind of jewelry it is: earrings, rings or bracelets. If you have lost some kind of the jewelry, it shows that you lost some part of your personality. Perhaps you should take care of yourself….

…Dreaming of shirt-studs, foretells you will struggle to humor your pride, and will usually be successful. If they are diamonds, and the center one is larger than the others, you will enjoy wealth, or have an easy time, surrounded by congenial friends….

…The significance of stones (precious and other-wise). Amethyst, success in courtship; blood-stones, legacies; coral, a birth; cornelian, treachery; diamonds, drowning; emeralds, great success in the arts; jasper, inconstancy; opal, separation, divorce, rapture in friendships; pearls, great sorrow; rubies, lover’s kisses; turquoise, the breaking off of an engagement; sapphires, a wedding; common pebbles, petty troubles; black rocks, illness and death; sand, a serious calamity; chalk, ailment or death of a child; granite, accident on land; marble, death.To dream of teeth coming out portends illness or death, but not necessarily of the dreamer. For example, a man told me that, on the night preceding the death of one of his brothers, he dreamed his teeth fell out, and that on one of them was a portrait of the brother who died….

…If playing them in your dreams with others for social pastime, you will meet with fair realization of hopes that have long buoyed you up. Small ills will vanish. But playing for stakes will involve you in difficulties of a serious nature. If you lose at cards you will encounter enemies. If you win you will justify yourself in the eyes of the law, but will have trouble in so doing. If a young woman dreams that her sweetheart is playing at cards, she will have cause to question his good intentions. In social games, seeing diamonds indicate wealth | clubs, that your partner in life will be exacting, and that you may have trouble in explaining your absence at times | hearts denote fidelity and cosy surroundings | spades signify that you will be a widow and encumbered with a large estate….

Diamonds are the most precious stones and dream about these stones is considered auspicious in reference to health, because the diamond is imperishable, and also in relation to business projects, because this rock stands with its value to adversity of circumstances. For its hardness, it can also reflect that we have enough energy to meet new challenges in the transformation of our character.

When you receive a love-letter avowing a passion for you, lay it full open, then fold it into nine, fix it near or next your heart, wear it thus till you are going to bed, put it in the glove belonging to your left hand, and then them both under your head. If your dreams are of costly gems, such as diamonds, gold, etc., rest assured that your lover is true to you, and you may rely upon his promises and professions of love for you.

…To dream that you’re harvesting or managing asparagus suggests that your affairs are going well and will continue to improve, always with the collaboration of your friends or employees. To dream that you’re eating asparagus suggests that the success that you’re experiencing will soon come to an end. To dream that you’re contemplating a field of asparagus announces successes in the immediate future, but if the crops are destroyed, for example by hail, ice, drought or any other cause, then it suggests that your business will worsen. This dream is considered a warning. To dream that you’re loading asparagus symbolizes desires; particularly love desires, susceptible to be realized favorably….

…dream means business losses, but if it falls in the winter in a dream, it means success and prosperity. Heavy falling hail in a dream means destruction of businesses, interruption of communication and damage to roads and highways. In that sense, hail in a dream means obstruction of public interests. In a dream, hail also represents a strange type of business that will come from the direction of the wind carrying such a storm. If no harm occurs in one’s dream, then hail represents glad tidings and especially if people start collecting it in bowls. If hail falls over a farmland without damaging it in a dream, it means a good harvest. If one gathers hail in his garment, or inside a cloth in a dream, it means that he will lose his riches, or it could mean the loss of an awaited shipment. (Also see Dew | Ice)…

…To see a refrigerator in your dreams, portends that your selfishness will offend and injure some one who endeavors to gain an honest livelihood. To put ice in one, brings the dreamer into disfavor….

…I dream I am in the entrance hall of a huge castle. The walls, floor, and ceiling are all of stone. There is no one about, and throughout the vast building reigns an omnipotent hush. Confronting me is a broad spiral staircase, which I proceed to ascend. Up, up, up I go, and I am beginning to despair of ever arriving at the summit, when from far below comes the faint sound of footsteps. I pause to listen, and my blood turns to ice. There is something in those footsteps that suggests the grotesque and sinister. Panic-stricken, I assay to run, and my feet seem weighted with iron. The footsteps grow more and more audible. They are no longer walking but bounding — bounding prodigiously, three stairs at a time. Wild with terror, I struggle feebly on; the footsteps draw nearer and nearer — three stairs — two stairs…

…To dream of the wind signifies quarrels, the making of an enemy, and trouble in courtship and matrimony. To dream of rain portends tears; of snow and ice, illness or death; of sunshine, success in love, legacies and presents….

…To see icicles falling from trees, denotes that some distinctive misfortune, or trouble, will soon vanish. See Ice….

…anything so very out of the way in my choice of costume.Indeed, I stammered, “I think it most ordinary.” “Altogether too ordinary! Too infernally ordinary!” thundered my host. “Look at yourself in that glass!” and he pointed to a huge mirror as he spoke. Then my blood turned to ice. I had — yes, I had come as Adam — Adam before the fall! “Chase him!” shrieked my host, “Chase the insolent wretch, and when you catch him, skin him alive! Hardly were the words,” out of his mouth before the guests and musicians, armed with chairs, fans, and violins, rushed, shrieking and yelling, at me; but, happily for me, I was still some few feet ahead of my pursuers, when I awoke.On another occasion, I dreamed I was handing round the bag in some fashionable church, when all the men suddenly turned round and scowled at me, and the…

Traditionally if we melt gold, then it symbolizes our questions about our capital investment. If it’s silver, then it is an omen of pleasant business, and if it’s ice, then symbolizes the need to reach others through feelings.

To dream of the ice thawing, denotes to your coldness with new people, thoughts or concepts. Perhaps you are the one who is very conservative and nonchalant to innovations.

If you were skating in a dream, it shows the fun and playful aspects of your personality. You find it interesting and nice to try new things while going through life. The skating also requires lots of balance, therefore the one who is skating is able to keep his way straight. The skating on ice also shows the strong aspects of the personality.

…Dreaming of seeing ice thawing, foretells that some affair which has caused you much worry will soon give you profit and pleasure. To see the ground thawing after a long freeze, foretells prosperous circumstances….

If you are fishing in a dream, then it means you are trying to catch some idea or finally bring up some problem on the table. If you are ice fishing, then such dream shows that you are trying very hard to get over with some problem or you are facing some issues within yourself.