He could not speak and rushed out of the room overcome.

Returning after a time he explained that something in me now and then flashed before him his father, who would instantly vanish but come back at intervals.

Some gesture it was, but what precisely he could not make out.

My mother continually noticed in me some of my grandfather's peculiarities.

The doctrine of inherited tendencies is proved every day and hour, but how subtle is the law which transmits gesture, something as it were beyond the material body.