The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS To The Book Of The Thousand And One Nights With Notes Anthropological And Explanatory By Richard F. Burton VOLUME TWO Privately Printed By The Burton Club To Henry Irving, Esq. My Dear Irving, To a consummate artist like yourself I need hardly suggest that The Nights still offers many a virgin mine to the
On second thought, I did not feel sure that I could quarrel with her
estimate.
The experiment was that time once more successful. Sebastian woke up
from the comatose state after eight hours, not quite as fresh as Hilda
Wade, perhaps, but still tolerably alive; less alert, however, and
complaining of dull headache. He was not hungry. Hilda Wade shook her
head at that. "It will be of use only in a very few cases," she said to
me, regretfully; "and those few will need to be carefully picked by
an acute observer. I see resistance to the coma is, even more than
I thought, a matter of temperament. Why, so impassioned a man as
the Professor himself cannot entirely recover. With more sluggish
temperaments, we shall have deeper difficulty."
"Would you call him impassioned?" I asked. "Most people think him so
cold and stern."
She shook her head. "He is a snow-capped volcano!" she answered. "The
fires of his life burn bright below. The exterior alone is cold and
placid."
However, starting from that time, Sebastian began a course of
experiments on patients, giving infinitesimal doses at first, and
venturing slowly on somewhat larger quantities. But only in his own case
and Hilda's could the result be called quite satisfactory. One dull
SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS To The Book Of The Thousand And One Nights With Notes Anthropological And Explanatory By Richard F. Burton VOLUME TWO Privately Printed By The Burton Club To Henry Irving, Esq. My Dear Irving, To a consummate artist like yourself I need hardly suggest that The Nights still offers many a virgin mine to the