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Man is the eye of things. -- Euryph, "de Vit. Hum. " / . There is, therefore, a certain ecstatical or transporting / power, which, if at any time it shall be excited or stirred up by / an ardent desire and most strong imagination, is able to conduct / the spirit of the more outward even to some absent and / far-distant object. -- Von Helmont.
The rooms that Mejnour occupied consisted of two chambers communicating with each other, and a third in which he slept. All these rooms were placed in the huge square tower that beetled over the dark and bush-grown precipice. The first chamber which Glyndon entered was empty. With a noiseless step he passed on, and opened the door that admitted into the inner one. He drew back at the threshold, overpowered by a strong fragrance which filled the chamber: a kind of mist thickened the air rather than obscured it, for this vapour was not dark, but resembled a snow-cloud moving slowly, and in heavy undulations, wave upon wave regularly over the space. A mortal cold struck to the Englishman's heart, and his blood froze.