I cannot but confess, however, that the relief which it has afforded has been produced by the counteraction of one pain by another; very much like that of the Russian criminal, who gnaws his own flesh while undergoing the punishment of the knout.'" "For Heaven's sake," said I, "try to dispossess your mind of such horrid images.

There are many, very many resources yet left you.

Try the effect of society; and let it call into exercise those fine talents which all admit are so well calculated to be its ornament and pride.
At least, leave this hypochondriacal atmosphere, and look out more frequently upon nature.

Your opium, if it be an alleviator, is, by your own confession, a most melancholy one.

It exorcises one demon to give place to a dozen others.
'With other ministrations, thou, O Nature! Healest thy wandering and distempered child.'" He smiled bitterly; it was a heartless, melancholy relaxation of features, a mere muscular movement, with which the eye had no sympathy; for its wild and dreamy expression, the preternatural lustre, without transparency, remained unaltered, as if rebuking, with its cold, strange glare, the mockery around it.