He begged to be excused. "I am unaccustomed to it—it might incapacitate me," he objected. "But do you take a dose. I should like to see its effects."
And so, to amuse him, although I was more than a mile away from home and could not remain with him for many hours on account of his other engagements, I swallowed a portion.
I only narrate these circumstances be cause they led up to a curious experience, involving a marvellous realisation of what has been called "levitation."
We dined together the drug began to exercise its accustomed influence; and I was already in Elysium, when my friend had to leave his house. Having still some slight will-power left, I made up my mind to walk home.
It was a summer evening, and the sun had just set as I shook hands with my host at his door, and descended the steps. No sooner did I reach the pavement of the street than I suddenly lost my normal consciousness, and was apparently liberated from the ordinary shackles of the body.
