He then gave me the ether in a stronger dose, and this time I quitted the body instantly, and cannot remember any detail of what I saw and did; but the impression was as in the Oriental tale, where the man has his head in the water an instant only, but in his vision a thousand years seem to have passed.

I experienced that same sense of an immense length of time and succession of impressions; even, now, the moment my mind was in that state seems to me a far longer period in time than my life on earth does as I look back upon it.

Suddenly I seemed to see the old dentist, as I had for the moment before I inhaled the gas, amid his plants, in his nightcap and dressing-gown; in the twilight the figure had somewhat of a Faust-like, magical air, and he seemed to say, "_C'est inutile._" Again I started up, fancying that once more he had not dared to extract the tooth, but it was gone.

What is worth, noticing is the mental translation I made of his words, which, my ear must have caught, for my companion tells me he said, "_C'est le moment_," a phrase of just as many syllables, but conveying just the opposite sense.
Ah! I how I wished then, that you had settled, there in the United States, who really brought this means of evading a portion of the misery of life into use.

But as it was, I remained at a loss whom to apostrophize with my benedictions, whether Dr.Jackson, Morton, or Wells, and somebody thus was robbed of his clue;--neither does Europe know to whom to address her medals.
However, there is no evading the heavier part of these miseries.