Excerpt: ... your five splendid wits by day--sleeping your lovely sleep at night; but only able to think with your brain, it seems, and then only when you are fast asleep. I only found it out just now, and saved your earthly life, mon beau somnambule! It was a great surprise to me! "Don't mention this to any living soul till I give you leave. You will only hear from me on great occasions. " Martia. " "P. S.--Always leave something to write with by your bedside at night, in case the great occasion should arise. On ne sait ...
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Excerpt: ... your five splendid wits by day--sleeping your lovely sleep at night; but only able to think with your brain, it seems, and then only when you are fast asleep. I only found it out just now, and saved your earthly life, mon beau somnambule! It was a great surprise to me! "Don't mention this to any living soul till I give you leave. You will only hear from me on great occasions. " Martia. " "P. S.--Always leave something to write with by your bedside at night, in case the great occasion should arise. On ne sait pas ce qui peut arriver!" Pg 258 Bewildered, beside himself, Barty ran to his looking glass, and stared himself out of countenance, and almost shouted: "I trust you, Martia!" And ceased suddenly to feel the north. Then he dressed and went to breakfast. Little Frau thought he had gone mad, for he put a five franc piece upon the carpet, and made her stand a few feet off from it and cover her left eye with her hand. "Now follow the point of my stick with your right eye," says he, "and tell me if the five franc piece disappears." And he slowly drew with the point of his stick an imaginary line from the five franc piece to the left of her, at right angles to where she stood. When the point of the stick was about two feet from the coin, she said: "Tiens, tiens, I no longer see the piece!" When the point of the stick had got a foot farther on, she said, "Now I can see the piece again quite plain." Then he tried the same experiment on her left eye, rightwards, with the same result. Then he experimented with equal success on her father and mother, and found that every eye at No. 36 Rue des Ursulines Blanches had exactly the same blind spot as his own. Then off he went to Antwerp to see his friends with a light heart--the first light heart he had known for many months; but when he got there he was so preoccupied with what had happened that he did not care to see anybody. He walked about the ramparts and along the Scheldt, and..."
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