I did it, but it was not mine.

I was forced at times to wander round, and round, and round that spot.

If you had chained me up when the fit was on me, I should have broken away, and gone there.

As truly as the loadstone draws iron towards it, so he, lying at the bottom of his grave, could draw me near him when he would.
Was that fancy?
Did I like to go there, or did I strive and wrestle with the power that forced me ?' The blind man shrugged his shoulders, and smiled incredulously.

The prisoner again resumed his old attitude, and for a long time both were mute.
'I suppose then,' said his visitor, at length breaking silence, 'that you are penitent and resigned; that you desire to make peace with everybody (in particular, with your wife who has brought you to this); and that you ask no greater favour than to be carried to Tyburn as soon as possible?
That being the case, I had better take my leave.