When people asked me, "How _can_ you tell what he is willing you to do ?" I said, "It's just as easy," and they always said, admiringly, "Well it beats _me_ how you can do it." Hicks was weak in another detail.

When the professor made passes over him and said "his whole body is without sensation now--come forward and test him, ladies and gentlemen," the ladies and gentlemen always complied eagerly, and stuck pins into Hicks, and if they went deep Hicks was sure to wince, then that poor professor would have to explain that Hicks "wasn't sufficiently under the influence." But I didn't wince; I only suffered, and shed tears on the inside.

The miseries that a conceited boy will endure to keep up his "reputation"! And so will a conceited man; I know it in my own person, and have seen it in a hundred thousand others.

That professor ought to have protected me, and I often hoped he would, when the tests were unusually severe, but he didn't.

It may be that he was deceived as well as the others, though I did not believe it nor think it possible.