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Akulina's remark about the Count's madness had made him more careful than he would otherwise have been in his manner of breaking the news. "I am not well," said the Count in a low voice.
"To-day is Wednesday--I am never well on Wednesdays." "To-day is Thursday," answered Grabofsky. "Thursday? Thursday--" the Count reeled, and would have fallen, but for the support of the nervous little man's wiry arm. Then, in the space of a second, took place that strange phenomenon of the intelligence which is as yet so imperfectly understood.
It is called the "Transfer" in the jargon of the half-developed science which deals with suggestion and the like.
Its effects are strange, sudden and complete, often observed, never understood, but chronicled in hundreds of cases and analysed in every seat of physiological learning in Europe.
In the twinkling of an eye, a part or the whole of the intelligence, or of the sensations, is reversed in action, and this with a logical precision of which no description can give any idea.
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