The seat, moreover, not having been fashioned for him or for any soft purpose, resisted his pressure and became a thing of violence, that required to be humiliatingly coaxed.

His last resource to propitiate it was counselled by nature turned mathematician: tenacious extension solved the problem; he lay back at his length, and with his hat over his eyes consented to see nothing for the sake of comfort.

Thus he was perfectly rational, though when others beheld him he appeared the insanest of mortals.
A girl's voice gave out the mountain carol ringingly above.

His heart and all his fancies were in motion at the sound.

He leaned on an elbow to listen; the slide threatened him, and he resumed his full stretch, determined to take her for a dream.