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Like a mirage she vanished, and again I found myself safe in my bed at the hospital. "Safe," did I say? Scarcely that for deliverance from one impending disaster simply meant immediate precipitation into another. My delirium gradually subsided, and four or five days after the 23d the doctors were able to set my broken bones. The operation suggested new delusions.
Looking backward, she almost wondered how she had endured the agony of love and suffering and sacrifice which had been compressed into a single year. She wished sometimes that they had let her die when she was so ill let her slip easily out of the world while the delirium of fever still closed the door on conscious knowledge of all that she had lost.
He smiled, and then, closing his eyes, fell asleep outside the borders of the land of visions, and with the music of a woman's voice haunting the last moments of his consciousness. After the fever had once broken, his return to strength was rapid. Although accompanied by delirium, and though running its full course of weeks, the "mountain fever" is not as intense as typhoid.
To the East, then, belong the passion and the delirium of passion, the long brown hair, the harem, the amorous divinities, the splendor, the poetry of love and the monuments of love.
Yet, being unable to discover either the cause or manner of it, I remained in the most cruel state of suspense. I wrote letter after letter to Guy, to M. de Malesherbes and to Madam de Luxembourg, and not receiving answers, at least when I expected them, my head became so affected that I was not far from a delirium.
I have but one word of comfort for your Grace that your admirable daughter's health has not yet suffered. Your Grace's faithful servant, MY DEAREST MOTHER, Yarmouth. The delirium has subsided. A few minutes ago, as I was kneeling beside him, offering up an almost hopeless prayer for his recovery, his eyes opened, and I perceived that he knew me.
For a time there had been something akin to fear in all our hearts, but after a while it left us, to make room for the delirium of blind, reckless speed. And then, suddenly, like a flash, the captain grasped the old fellow's shoulder. "Slow down, man," he shrieked. "I bet all I've got you don't know where you are, and I can hear waves breaking ashore."
It is with a deep sense of our responsibility that we warn that exalted person that neither his great position nor his incomparable talents will save him in the hour of delirium from the fate of all those who, in the madness of luxury or tyranny, have met the English people in the rare day of its wrath." "I am now," said the King, "going to write an account of the battle by an eye-witness."
He was in Paris; had been there for six weeks, and now awoke with a sense of loneliness, a desire to be back among his own people. In London he had spent only a fortnight. It was not a time that he cared to reflect upon. No sooner had he found himself in the metropolis, alone and free, with a pocketful of money, than a delirium possessed him.
In the delirium that preceded his death, Aratov spoke of himself as Romeo ... after the poison; spoke of marriage, completed and perfect; of his knowing now what rapture meant. Most terrible of all for Platosha was the minute when Aratov, coming a little to himself, and seeing her beside his bed, said to her, 'Aunt, what are you crying for? because I must die?
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