As to its effect, I had no adequate words. I can only say that after a few seconds of stony silence following his collapse I burst out into something like a violent fit of hysterics…. In those moments of our mutual emotion he too had found a friend and knew it. Soul had looked into soul! From that hour began a friendship as profound, as close, as lasting as can be between two men.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "As to its effect, I had no adequate words. I can only say that after a few seconds of stony silence following his collapse I burst out into something like a violent fit of hysterics…. In those moments of our mutual emotion he too had found a friend and knew it. Soul had looked into soul! From that hour began a friendship as profound, as close, as lasting as can be between two men." in the context of "New York Times,The incident took place on the evening of 3 Dec 1876: Stoker 1906, Vol. 1, pp.31-3. " to mean that wisdom is timeless.