![]() ![]() Suddenly the whole matter appeared to me in so clear a light, and all its tremendous combinations were placed so perfectly before me, that I almost trembled at the power that appeared placed in my hands. I fought against the idea, but uselessly. Satan himself seemed to be incorporated in me, and told me how I could accomplish the destruction of the universe. ![]() This artificial stupor I continued to keep up for some minutes at last I was obliged to awake to the sad realities of life. I think I tried to believe I was under a delusion. I lay there motionless as a corpse, and apparently tried to persuade myself I was asleep. One morning I heard the doctor’s knock at the door unwilling to be questioned by him at the time, a childish determination came over me to pretend to be asleep. Have yet a little patience, and I will prove it.‘ Indeed, you do me an in justice I am not mad. On glancing my eye over the few lines I have written, I cannot help suspecting, reader, that you have already begun to entertain a doubt of my sanity. She was incessantly bursting into tears, and frequently, when she imagined I was asleep, she appeared almost broken-hearted. ![]() ![]() When I recovered my senses, I found a great change in my dear wife. ![]()
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