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Madame des Ursins, who, though a woman of imagination, was, as we have said, but little liable to be dazzled, might still have been pardoned giving way during these months of royal favour to an excess of intoxication; but above all, and at the same time that she displayed the treasures of her continual and inexhaustible conversation, she evinced a lively appreciation of the King's mental qualities.
Into this apartment Chillis unceremoniously thrust himself through the half-open door, frowning as darkly as his fine and pleasant features would admit of, and muttering to himself, "Damme, I thought as much." On the wooden settee reclined a man thirty years his junior Chillis was over sixty, though he did not look it sleeping the heavy, stupid sleep of intoxication.
He had screwed up his little yellow physiognomy into the shape of an ill-conditioned and battered face on a brass knocker. He had his usual afternoon wine-flush upon him; but a feeling of vindictiveness had placed his feelings of incipient intoxication under complete mastery. "So you dined in the ward-room, Mr Rattlin?"
'That is all right, he said. He knew that the sun was burning through him, and doing him harm, but he wanted the intoxication. As he looked wistfully far away over the sea at Helena's mist-curtain, he said: 'I think we should be able to keep together if' he faltered 'if only I could have you a little longer. I have never had you ...
There seemed a dim, treacherous comfort in the adverb, and he stayed with her. "Wine and love bring a similar intoxication. You can trust that you will be able to say in time, 'I can no more. And then you will find that you only see the turning-point when you are past it. The world then says without pity or understanding: 'The man's drunk." From the Diary of Eric Lane.
Strictly speaking, it was on Wednesday night that he had got drunk; but he felt as if his intoxication had prolonged itself abnormally, as if this were the first moment of indubitable sobriety. And as he lay there, he prepared himself to act the part of the cold, abstracted, supercilious man of business, the part already too horribly familiar to him as young Mr. Rickman of Rickman's.
In her madness of intoxication she undertook the work, threw down the gauntlet, and the fierce tocsin of war sounded from nation to nation, until the continent was converted into one vast battle-field." The "angel of the waters" signifies the angel that had charge of the vial of wrath poured out upon the rivers and fountains of waters.
It's only in a general way. These things stir one up, somehow; it's a form of mental intoxication. Do you think a man could get drunk on sunset and phlox, Miss Vesta?" "Oh, I trust not, I trust not!" said Miss Vesta, hurriedly, and she made haste to change the subject. She as well as her sister found the young doctor's expressions overstrong at times, yet she loved the lad.
He found himself sometimes walking through a stratum of hot air which seemed to exhale from the wood itself, while his head and breast were swept by the mountain breeze. He felt the old intoxication of the balmy-scented air again, and the five years of care and hopelessness laid upon his shoulders since he had last breathed its fragrance slipped from them like a burden.
There could hardly have been a more miserable wretch than Sir Felix wandering about the streets of London that night. Though he was nearly drunk, he was not drunk enough to forget the condition of his affairs. There is an intoxication that makes merry in the midst of affliction, and there is an intoxication that banishes affliction by producing oblivion.
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