Then I Sat Down and Slept Like a Child

When i opened my eyes again, it was with no special surprise, for the cap ty of wonder is very volatile. And as many times i triumphed, the unquenched fire of my mind, but burning the brighter for each opposition. At last, when the painted shadows had crept up the opposite wall inch by inch and lost themselves in the upper colonnades, and the gloom around me had deepened into blackness. I was victorious and weak and faint and tingling, but re spirited and supple. I lay back and slept like a child. The rest did me good.