The Conscript

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​​​​​‌‌​⁠[The inner self] ... by a phenomenon of vision or of locomotion has been known at times to abolish Space in its two modes of Time and Distance—the one intellectual, the other physical.

—HISTORY OF LOUIS LAMBERT.

On a November evening in the year 1793 the principal citizens of Carentan were assembled in Mme. de Dey's drawing-room. Mme. de Dey held this reception every night of the week, but an unwont