What influence he exercised upon everything into contact with which I was brought, may be understood from a few detached instances.

To begin with this very day on which he first joined me: after I had walked heartlessly along for two or three hours, I was very weary, and lay down to rest in a most delightful part of the forest, carpeted with wild flowers.

I lay for half an hour in a dull repose, and then got up to pursue my way.

The flowers on the spot where I had lain were crushed to the earth: but I saw that they would soon lift their heads and rejoice again in the sun and air.

Not so those on which my shadow had lain.