Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-25
Galts aIlo Slseiftes,


about the mesmerism. i didn't tell him
At first be answered; but lately he said
he was quite satisfied from your wander
ings that you had been mesmerisipg vio-
let, and he wished to know if that had
ANYTHING to do with the failure Of the
heart. thought it best then to tell him.
and disabuse bis mind of any such sus-
picion, and you may rest quite assured
that he enierfains none
..As soon az | Was fit to be driven out
was taken, at my earnest entreafy. to see
where she lay. 1t was not at Llanrwst.
but in the little churcbyard at Llanrhy-
ohwyn, up the very mountain where she
died. Her father had once held the cure
of 1t, and her mother was buried there.
Her own grave was separate, and the
headstone was not yet put up, ! begged
that it might have that text. The damsel
Is not dead, but sleepeLh; and her father.
doubtless guessing why I'D chosen it.
agreed.
by the time I'd recovered strength at
all appreciably. the October term had be-
gun. | didn't in the least want to 60 back
to Oxford for long while. but. holding a
scholarship. had duty to my college
which felt bound not TO shirk. DIR. Jones,
however. wouldn't hear of my returning
to work yet, 80 I sent . certificate from
him to the President. who at once gave
me leave to stay down till was fit to be-
gin my Greats reading. Meredith went
up TO Johns at the same time, and, nat
urally enough. told the people there what
he knew. Luckily. he didn't know any
thing about the mesmerism.
"But, though / wasn't to be allowed to
\.
ly urged me to seek entire change Of scene.
Il don't wish.' he said. to diminish one
whit the hold OF this affection on you, but
affection is one thing, and morbid brood
ing another, and this morbid brooding il
preying through your mind on your body,
and seriously DELAYING the restoration of
your strength. Remember. Anstie. that
the duty Of your life calls you-the duty
of making the best of yonr abilities for
the general good-and that you will at
the same time be most truly reverencing
her by seeking to fulfil what You know
would have been her ideal. Go to the sea
-Llandudno-and get fresh tone for your
mind and body together And 40 ! went
to the sea but wouldn't 60 to Llandud-
no, because should have seen too many
people there (though believe that was
his reason for recommending iD. went.
instead. to Colwyn Bay.
II hadn't been there long before felt
curious mental sensations. / shouldn't
have known quite how to describe them
then, but feel now that they were like
struggles Of mind trying to express it.
self; and vet my power Of thinking did
not at other moments seem in the least
impaired. And marked feature in con-
nection with these sensations was that
they required whenever l was grieving
over Violet's death. and seemed to exer-
else an influence contrary to my own feel
ings. At last they came to be accom-
panied with positive Observation-Disclosures
independent of my own, and taking the
form of messages Of comfort and happi-
ness from my betrothed. Have you any
idea now what I'm going to confide to
your unbelief?"
YES" said. you're going to tell me
that these sensations were the working of
her spirit visiting you from time to time"
I'm going to tell you something far
more wonderful than that | tell You
that these were the working Of her spirits
not visiting me from timo tn time, but
actually dwelling with mine in one body
from the time when her own body passed
from that mesmeric sleep into death.
when these messages came to me, |
doubted them at first for workings of my
own mind; but their persistency soon
forced me to admit the happy truth. And
the time has long passed since these ex-
pressions of this second mind were limit.
ed to mere messages; they are now
thoughts of the same variety and COM
plexity as my own. but always separate
from my own. and often differing from
them.
"It's perfectly possible that all other
cases Of mesmerism known to you or me
may find their explanation in the common
scientific theory; certainly. never saw
the slightest evidence that the minds Of
any OF Madame Packs subjects were in
direct rapport with her own. But there's
this marked difference between those cases
and Violet's. as I've already pointed out.
that. while my mesmeric power over her
increased, my mesmeric control over her
disappeared; she ased to become rs one
dead, and the reason was that her mind
was for the time attracted out Of her body
into that of the mesmerizer.
"And now consider the circumstance
of her death. I've said that the walk was
GNhk piU iOi ~ tNuNs ouu VIC otu NVu
that DR.. Jones regarded il as quite sufficient
In her case to account for the failure Of
the hearts action. But she'd been that
same walk many times before. and her
health and spirits were never better than
on that last day. The reason why the
hearts action failed was simply that.
when mesmerized her. the energizing
and sustaining mind was attracted from her
body into mine.
"rhen the sojourn of her soul with
mine became apparent; there was no liv-
ing tenement to receive It back. For long
after that. however, 1t lay inactive: the
new machinery Of its disposal for mental
operations was strange to II, perhaps one
might also say that il was strange to the
machinery, that each had to become &C.
customed to the other. Then came per-
ception and the power of active thought
q power first used to convey to me those
glad messages, and afterward for every
purpose to which your thought or mine
works.
IL cannot possibly describe to you how
happy my life has become. To have been
united with her as marriage unites would
have been happiness indeed, but to dwell
in one frame. to feel every pleasure and
every pain together. to know each others
every thOught--surely from the beyin-