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A strange sensation crept over me, for I suddenly felt that my brain, dazed by that subtle odour of _pot-pourri_, was slowly unclouding -- ever so slowly -- until, to my amazement, I found myself seated upon a garden chair on a long veranda which overlooked a sloping garden, with the blue-green sunlit sea beyond.
Of the lapse of time I have no idea to this day; nor have I any knowledge of what happened to me.