As we approached
each other, our eyes met and I can never describe the strange
sensations that thrilled through my whole frame at that
impressive moment; a moment to me fraught with the most
tremendous consequences; the beginning of a series of adventures
which has puzzled myself, and will puzzle the world when I am
no more in it. That time will now soon arrive, sooner than anyone
can devise who knows not the tumult of my thoughts and the
labour of my spirit; and when it hath come and passed over, when
my flesh and my bones are decayed, and my soul has passed to its
everlasting home, then shall the sons of men ponder on the events
of my life; wonder and tremble, and tremble and wonder how
such things should be.
That strange youth and I approached each other in silence, and
slowly, with our eyes fixed on each other's eyes. We approached
till not more than a yard intervened between us, and then stood
still and gazed, measuring each other from head to foot. What
was my astonishment on perceiving that he was the same being as
myself! The clothes were the same to the smallest item. The form
was the same; the apparent age; the colour of the hair; the eyes;
and, as far as recollection could serve me from viewing my own
features in a glass, the features too were the very same.
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