Excerpt from A Son of Old Harry a Novel Other than what you are I repeated to myself, as I heard the firm, elastic steps echoing along the corridor of the great hotel outside my room when the physician went away. What am I It did not need knowledge such as his to determine. Half dead and half alive! This body which has served me so well at need, and which, whatever else I may have done, I have never abused, has been cut in twain. One-half has already passed beyond the realm of consciousness. The inert limbs chain me to ...
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Excerpt from A Son of Old Harry a Novel Other than what you are I repeated to myself, as I heard the firm, elastic steps echoing along the corridor of the great hotel outside my room when the physician went away. What am I It did not need knowledge such as his to determine. Half dead and half alive! This body which has served me so well at need, and which, whatever else I may have done, I have never abused, has been cut in twain. One-half has already passed beyond the realm of consciousness. The inert limbs chain me to the couch. The nerves which traverse the yet unshrunken tissues, bring only dim, vague mes sages of need - dull, prickling appeals for aid. I live, but it is only a half-life. The brain is alert the soul alive the body slipping helplessly and hopelessly into the tomb. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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