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Updated: June 15, 2025
"He set an ankle for me, once, after a football match," suggested the clerk. "I wouldn't ask to be better treated. He wasn't a bit rough." ..."Gentlemen," I entreated, stretching out my hands toward the group, "there is some mistake I must make it understood. I am here. It is I, Dr. Thorne; Dr. Esmerald Thorne. I am in this office. Gentlemen! Listen to me! Look at me! Look in this direction!
Skill of scientist and philosopher was as naught to help the human spirit which had fled the body to make itself understood by one which occupied it still. More blessed in that moment was Lion, the dog, than Esmerald Thorne, the dead man. I said to myself: "I am a desolate and an outcast creature. I am become a dumb thing in a deaf world." I thrust my hands before me, and wrung them with a groan.
But on one occasion, happening to be present when the child interrogated me in this manner, he bent a piercing gaze upon me. "Why do you not answer the child, Esmerald Thorne?" he asked me in a voice of authority. "Alas," I said, "I have no answer. I know nothing of these matters. They have been so foreign to my temperament, that I" But here I faltered.
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