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"A shilling!" cried she, "where am I to find a shilling? And if I could find one, why should I throw it away upon a thing not worth twopence, and which will only lumber my store till I die? The boy's demented!" "Mother," says I, "it's worth a shilling, and you know it; so give it to me, or I go elsewhere." "And where will you go to, good-for-nothing that you are? where will you go to?"
Diana, demented by the maddening example, joined in the orgie, howling and barking frantically in her turn, and wildly jumping as high as the ceiling of the Projectile. Then came new accessions to the infernal din.
It was that, after their most tremendous, and, it seemed to her, heaven-rending passion yea, when for her every veil seemed rent and a terrible and sacred creative darkness covered the earth then after all this wonder and miracle in crept a poisonous grey snake of disillusionment, a poisonous grey snake of disillusion that bit her to madness, so that she really was a mad woman, demented. Why? Why?
A bloody victory over demented brethren hangs awful laurels on the French sword: De Gallifet, Vinoy, Ducrot, L'Admirault, Cissey, D'Aurelle de Palladines, Besson and Charrette surround the unlucky veteran, Marshal McMahon, Duc de Magenta. General Le Flo, the Minister of War, hurls this great army against the two hundred and fifty-two battalions of National Guards within the walls of Paris.
We toiled like galley-slaves, for though the danger was not visible as yet, for aught we knew it might appear above the horizon at any moment, and then our chances would be small indeed. Had any eye watched our progress it must have deemed us demented, for we rowed across a lonely sea as though death and destruction followed close in our wake.
Perhaps there was something, amid all the extravagant demeanor of Legrand some air of forethought, or of deliberation, which impressed me. I dug eagerly, and now and then caught myself actually looking, with something that very much resembled expectation, for the fancied treasure, the vision of which had demented my unfortunate companion.
The Ghost had on a helmet and a breastplate. I sat in pale transport. ''Amblet, 'Amblet, I am thy father's ghost. Then came a voice from the dark, silent audience, like a cynical knife to my fond soul: 'Why tha arena, I can tell thy voice. The peasants loved Ophelia: she was in white with her hair down her back. Poor thing, she was pathetic, demented.
For all her instinct, all her impulse, all her desire, and above all, all her will, was to possess her man in very fulness once: just once: and once and for all. Once, just once: and it would be once and for all. But never! Never! Not once! Never! Not for one single solitary second! Was it not enough to send a woman mad! Was it not enough to make her demented! Yes, and mad she was.
"Le' 's hurry." They stumbled forward with bowed heads in silence, until of a sudden they were startled by a surprised hail of recognition, and looked up to find themselves confronted by a bent and gray old man, a village character, a harmless, slightly demented public charge known as "Ishmael" or "Captain Rover." "Whar yew goin', Cap'n Rose?"
Guy could stand this no longer, he feared the girl's mind would become demented if allowed to continue in such a strain; he stole over, and putting his arms gently around her, he drew her away from the figure of the dead man "Honor," he whispered, "you must come away now, this will harm you you look so tired and ill already, you must take great care of yourself darling, for my sake, do."
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