I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results.
I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul.
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect -- in terror.
In this unnerved, in this pitiable, condition I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.