CHAPTER XV.
AN UNTIMELY REMINISCENCE.
In spite of nursing and a very strong constitution, Bressant's recovery was slow.

The fact was, his mind was restless and disturbed, and produced a fever in his blood.

Large and powerful as he was, his physical was largely dependent on his mental well-being, as must always be the case with persons well organized throughout.

He would never have been so muscular and healthy had his life not been an undisturbed and self-complacent one.

These questions of the heart and emotions were not salutary to his body, however beneficial otherwise.
At the same time, no one is quite himself who is ill, and doubtless Bressant would have escaped many of his difficulties, and solved others with comparatively little trouble, if his faculties had not been untuned by illness.