"This is a rare chance, Cumberledge," he whispered to me once, in an interval of delirium.

"So few Europeans have ever had the complaint, and probably none who were competent to describe the specific subjective and psychological symptoms.

The delusions one gets as one sinks into the coma, for example, are of quite a peculiar type--delusions of wealth and of absolute power, most exhilarating and magnificent.

I think myself a millionaire or a Prime Minister.

Be sure you make a note of that--in case I die.