"In sleep it can be drawn from the body and sent upon its mission by one that is its master." "Then while you were asleep for all those thousands of years your Double must have made many journeys." "Perhaps," he replied quietly, "and my spirit also, which is another part of me that may have dwelt in the bodies of other men.

But unhappily, if so I forget, and that is why I have so much to learn and must even make use of such poor instruments as you, Humphrey." "Then if I sleep and you distil my Double out of me, I suppose that you sleep too.

In that case who distils your Double out of you, Lord Oro ?" He grew angry and answered: "Ask no more questions, blind and ignorant as you are.

It is your part not to examine, but to obey.

Sleep now," and again he waved his hand over me.
In an instant, as it seemed, we were standing in a grey old town that I judged from its appearance must be either in northern France or Belgium.
It was much shattered by bombardment; the church, for instance, was a ruin; also many of the houses had been burnt.