He now repeated it (quite ineffectually) for Mr.Linwood's benefit.

"If you don't feel the force of that argument as I feel it," he added, "perhaps, as a favor to me, sir, you will not object to our each taking the Doctor's hand again, and hearing what more he can tell us while he remains in the state of trance ?" "With the greatest pleasure!" answered good-humored Mr.Linwood.

"Our friend is beginning to amuse me; I am as anxious as you are to know what he is going to see next." Captain Bervie put the next question.
"You have seen us ready to fight a duel--can you tell us the result ?" "I can tell you nothing more than I have told you already.

The figures of the duelists have faded away, like the other figures I saw before them.

What I see now looks like the winding gravel-path of a garden.