Recalled to Life

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It may sound odd to say so but the very earliest fact that impressed itself on my memory was a scene that took place - so I was told - when I was eighteen years old in my father's house The Grange at Woodbury. My babyhood my childhood my girlhood my school-days were all utterly blotted out by that one strange shock of horror. My past life became exactly as though it had never been. I forgot my own name. I forgot my mother-tongue. I forgot everything I had ever done or known or thought about. Except for the power to walk and stand and perform simple actions of every-day use I became a baby in arms again with a nurse to take care of me. The doctors told me later I had fallen into what they were pleased to call a Second State. I was examined and reported upon as a Psychological Curiosity. But at the time I knew nothing of all this. A thunderbolt as it were destroyed at one blow every relic every trace of my previous existence; and I began life all over again with that terrible scene of blood as my first birthday and practical starting point.