text: --The door opened and a gentleman rushed into the room with all that eagerness which characterizes the unexpected meeting of warm friends after a long absence--and immediately after the first cordial greetings General D---- said--'My dear F---- it is most singular that although we have not met during the last fifteen years and I had not the most distant expectation of seeing or hearing from you yet you were in my thoughts not five minutes ago--I was relating to my friend my extraordinary dream when on board the ----; you were present and cannot have forgotten it