The feeling was not like an electric shock, but it was quite as sharp, as strange, as startling: it acted on my senses as if their utmost activity hitherto had been but torpor, from which they were now summoned and forced to wake.
Nem mondhatom, hogy olyan volt, mint egy áramütés, de éppen olyan erős és éppen olyan riasztó. Érzékeimre úgy hatott, mintha most ébredeznék valami zsibbadtságból.