The Face of Rosenfeld — page 118: what you’re looking at

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THE FACH OF ROSENFEL. 111 choly, which [ am sure was not natural to my disposi- tion.”’ ««Then as to your sight. Could you not call up the ~ face of an absent person most vividly before your mind, and, shutting your eyes, sometimes almost persuade yourself that that person was standing before you?” Annette suddenly became very pale. She looked at the physician, agitated and amazed. «‘Why—why, how could you know that, sir?” she stammered. She seemed so excessively troubled and alarmed that everybody uttered an exclamation of sur- prise. In afew moments, however, she had partly re- covered, and then she at once went on in a hurried man- ner, much as if she were trying to get away from 4 dan- gerous topic as fast as possible. ‘Indeed I never forgot faces, nor anything else that I saw that interested me. Sometimes such a thing would haunt me for days. I suppose it was my loneliness and ‘<olation that made me take so much interest in what I saw about me when I was young. I studied over them till they almost became a part of me; at least I fancied so. Sometimes when anything had impressed itself strongly on my mind 1b would come into my sleep night after night until it really terrified me with its vividness. And really, Doctor Lamar, | should like to know if you consider this a part of my disease?” She put the question anxiously, as if it were a mosb momentous one. | “Oh, no! Not at all, not at all!’ said the physician quickly, believing that he had alarmed her, though the fact seemed very strange and inexplicable to him, =<" think, perhaps, Miss Dye, we have talked sufficiently on such topics for one day. Some time when you are Alia <* 3 CS: ¢ ‘ : eo - A — < 4 . § * ™ “+ Ke ‘ oS ae , ; 3 - (¢ | ; wae Parish ee at Oe . “ oy ’ tu 53 ‘ . ahs sf Jae rat if 5 3 +) x * : ote * ? - ¥ =e m4 : = <u: “ ale, : ; mye a Raat ae an col wr is Sega SS Pee yo 2 ty = Yor ke 7 ees , o a> .* m ~~. s Tae . * %- >! er Or er a ro Oia LP - ‘ ih ye FER CL, Hat ys Sek ety ae ta ees eS PRE a ee Se eae sree Syn a Se haben