The sound of my voice seemed to rouse him a little, but he only looked at me with a more earnest gaze, and then closed his eyes.

From this time I was his constant nurse, and was soon blessed with finding him gradually recovering.

But as health came back to his body, it was too appallingly visible that his reason had been shattered.

He soon came to know me, to speak to me, and to caress me, with more than his usual fondness; but his mind was--alas! too evidently--imbecile.

As this state of mental alienation showed itself more and more distinctly, on his gradually acquiring physical strength, it seemed as if the painful fact would kill me.