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operations. Meantime the results had to be
waited for, and I continued my work with a
feeling of undefined uneasiness and a foreboding
of fresh misfortune.
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One evening, as I sat alone before my microscope,
an occurrence happened which made all
the deeper impression on me because I did not
understand it. For four days I had let a nut
germinate, and now detached the germ. This
had the shape of a heart, not much larger than
the core of a pear. Standing between two
cotyledons it looked like a diminutive human
brain. One may imagine my surprise when I
saw on the glass-slide of the microscope two tiny
hands, white as alabaster, folded as if in prayer.
Was it a vision, an hallucination? Oh, no! It
was a crushing reality which made me shudder.
The little hands were stretched out towards me,
immovable, as if adjuring me. I could count the
five fingers, the thumb shorter than the others—real
woman’s or child’s hands.
I made a friend, who surprised me watching
this astonishing sight, witness it also. He
required to be no clairvoyant in order to see two
clasped hands which besought the sympathy of
the beholder.
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