To do this, I must govern my spirit.

To do that, by force of imagination I was obliged like actors on the boards to resolve myself into an unnatural mental state and see all things through the eyes of an assumed character.
Fourth .-- I resolved to try on Winters, silently, and unconsciously to himself a mesmeric power which I possess over certain kinds of people, and which at times I have found to work even in the dark over the lower animals.
Does any one smile at these last counts?
God save you from ever being obliged to beat in a game of chess, whose stake is your life, you having but four poor pawns and pieces and your adversary with his full force unshorn.

But if you are, provided you have any strength with breadth of will, do not despair.

Though mesmeric power may not save you, it may help you; try it at all events.

In this instance I was conscious of power coming into me, and by a law of nature, I know Winters was correspondingly weakened.