All his predispositions had been suddenly brought to check, his habits turned upon the flank and routed, his mental postures flung into confusion.

He had to start life again; but it could not be in the way of any previous travel of mind or body.

The line of cleavage was sharp and wide, and the only connection with the past was in the long-reaching influence of evil habits, which crept from their coverts, now and again, to mock him as his old self had mocked life--to mock him and to tempt him.

Through seven months of healthy life for his body, while brain and will were sleeping, the whole man had made long strides towards recreation.

But with the renewal of will and mind the old weaknesses, roused by memory, began to emerge intermittently, as water rises from a spring.