Affecting Scenes, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Passages From the Diary of a Physician (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Towards which he generally contrived to incline every conversation in which he bore a part. He had been dilating, in particular, on the power possessed by Mr Maturin of exciting the most fearful and horrific ideas in the minds of his readers, instancing a particular passage of one of his romances - the title of which I have for gotten - where the fiend suddenly presents himself to his appalled victim, amidst the silence and gloom of his prison-cell. Long before he had reached home, the fumes Of wine had evaporated, and the influence of excitement subsided and, with reference to intoxication, he was as sober and calm as ever he was in his life. Wily he knew not, but his heart seemed to grow heavier and heavier, and his thoughts gloomier, every step by which he. Neared Lincoln's Inn. It struck three o'clock as he entered the sombrous portals of the ancient inn of court. The perfect silence - the moonlight shining sadly on the dusky buildings - the cold quivering stars - all these together, combined to enhance his nervousness. He described it to me as though things seemed to wear a strange, spectral, supernatural aspect. Not a watchman of the inn was heard crying the hour - not a porter moving -no living being but himself visible in the large square he was crossing. As he neared his staircase, he perceived his heart fluttering; in short, he felt under some strange unaccountable influence, which, had be reflected a little, he would have discovered to arise merely from an excit able nervous temperament, operating on an imagination peculiarly attuned to sympathies with terror. His cham bers lay on the third floor of the staircase and, on reach ing it, he found his door-lamp glimmering with its last expiring ray. He opened his door, and, after groping.

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