Page 401 (1/2)

"What is the debt?"

"Hundred and twenty-three pound, fifteen, six Jeweller's account, I

think"

"What is to be done?"

"You had better come to my house," said the et up and dressa little off fro at me I

still lay there

"You see my state," said I "I would come with you if I could; but

indeed I am quite unable If you take me from here, I think I shall die

by the way"

Perhaps they replied, or argued the point, or tried to encourage ht Foras in

my memory by only this one slender thread, I don't knohat they did,

except that they forbore to remove reatly, that

I often lost my reason, that the time seemed interminable, that I

confounded impossible existences with my own identity; that I was a

brick in the house-wall, and yet entreating to be released froiddy place where the builders had setand whirling over a gulf, and yet that I iine stopped, and h these phases of disease, I know of my own

remembrance, and did in soled with real people, in the belief that they were murderers, and