The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-30

page. His mind went by leaps over his
subject and took rhe bird 's-eye view from
rAe either end. Montague had felt the
lack of this perceptive power, so much
so that the plastering was in many places
kicked out Of the wall of their University
room as 50 many souvenirs of a chorus of
Sophocles, while Neville would look up
in the small hours at his roommate, with
the calm sweet smile that would often
break into laughter after ne had made
the tangled ways smooth Montague was
subjective: Neville was objective. Mon
tague perceived from within; Neville
perceived from without The two chums
had almost complemented one another
in physical and mental containing. the
one pra ctically getting exactly what the
other did not get and vice versa. MOnta
que looked long at mental phenomena;
Neville revelled gloriOuSly in physical
phenomena. Montague was tall, lankish,
ig-boned, dark with deep large brown
eyS. those eyes of such tolerant softness
and depth and sincerity as to disarm an
anita goniSt who would make a needless
issue. So that even now the Paris, as
Neville saw it in its glory, came to MOnta
que as if gloomed with the shadows
underneath it all. Often, under this ten
Thugs in the outward show; he was look
ng for the springs of life; Neville was
Cyu' "rantly intent upon the external
expression of these under forces. Neville
was natural; perhaps Montague
was morbid. 1t was not at all neces-
sary, except for one reason which may
be given later, to go into such detail touch
ing these young men, but they were group
Cd hOn toll
ing and one could but make some such
running mental comment upon them.
Perhaps Freckleworth had suggested the
subject, al amy rate Neville was just then
recalling an interesting case that he had
lately read in his fathers library of
patient conscious in some sense in the
midst of Il deirium. He was so weak
from hemmorhage that the doctors were
applying electricity to fetch him to, while
he smiled and commented as if he were
an on-looker. The truth is the man was
during all the treatment under no other
illusion than that that the physicians
were at work upon another man, whom.
from his bed, he could clearly see. lie
would even laughingly criticize the physi-
clans, and on their return would ask them
! how their patient was getting on, so that
as far as he was concerned he was a well
man observing another case, and that
other case the personality different from
| himself as well as perfectly defined He
showed much interest in the case, describ-
ing the man minutely to the physicians.
This was a well-authenticated case of
record, and presented no unusual phase
to Neville except as a natural phenome-
non. Montague remarked, however, that
he would have been willing to have suffer-
ed the spell of fever to have had the OPP
portunity of making a study of the
psychic phenomena involved. The dual
nervous system was dual to Neville in
the material duality known to physicians;
to Montague it came as two kingdoms of
the soul one for the useful, the other for
the Beautiful. 1t may be just as we'll to
say without further ado that some other
subject might have been more natural to
those young men; but for one particular
fact: the truth is these larks had been
drinking too much coffee, vermouth and
absinthe besides other things. Their
physical powers had by close university
work been MIXED of their natural buoy
ancy, and as a result much of that passive
caln4ness almost white calmness had set
tied over the face of Neville. The quick
discerning eye of his father had diagnosed
the trouble when he buried him abroad
for the change and sea-air. 1t was an
unearthly light that came over him some
times. little akin to the normal light of
the face, to the almost reckless hayward
light that gives certain attraction to
youths in whom the world forgives all
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