? ? ? ? Gradually there came a sort of vague beginning of cons- ciousness, then a sense of weariness that was dreadful. For a time I remembered nothing, but slowly my senses returned. My feet seemed positively racked with pain, yet I could not move them. They seemed to be numbed. There was an icy feeling at the back of my neck and all down my spine, and my ears, like my feet, were dead yet in torment; but there was in my breast a sense of warmth which was by comparison delicious.It was as a nightmare--a physical nightmare, if one may use such an expression; for some heavy weight on my chest made it diff- icult for me to breathe.
? ? ? ? This period of semilethargy seemed to remain a long time, and as it faded away I must have slept or swooned.
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