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"Emmeline!" he murmured, in the tone of one who entreats forgiveness. "Strange infatuation!" said George to himself: "even his dreams are mad! Good God! there can't be anything in it can there? I begin to feel as if I were not quite safe myself. Mad-doctors go mad themselves, they say. I wonder what sort of floating sporule carries the infection reaching the brain by the nose, I fancy.
Lynch him like a dog that steals sheep right off the reel, and save mad-doctors, skary judges, and Chartist papers all the trouble of findin' excuses. And, if that didn't do, Chinese like, they'd take the whole crowd present and sarve them out. They'd be sure to catch the right one then.
Nevertheless, these unfortunate beings, should they have better thoughts, or as mad-doctors have it, "a lucid interval," and leave the profession of the Mahometan faith, and afterwards again relapse into madness, and turn Mahometans once more, are doomed to irretrievable slavery, or if they relapse, to death itself; the Mahometan law, punishes relapsing renegades with death.
So that if my grandfather wished to attract the attention of the two sisters, he would have to make use of some such alarm signals as mad-doctors adopt in dealing with their distracted patients; as by beating several times on a glass with the blade of a knife, fixing them at the same time with a sharp word and a compelling glance, violent methods which the said doctors are apt to bring with them into their everyday life among the sane, either from force of professional habit or because they think the whole world a trifle mad.
This fatal drug has eaten away a thousand brains for one it has ever benefited." "Ah!" said Lady Bassett. "'Specialists! what are they?" "Medical men, who confine their practice to one disease." "Mad-doctors, he means," said the patient, very gravely. Lady Bassett turned very pale. "Then those were mad-doctors." "Never you mind, Bella," said Sir Charles. "I kicked the fellow handsomely."
"Emmeline!" he murmured, in the tone of one who entreats forgiveness. "Strange infatuation!" said George to himself: "even his dreams are mad! Good God! there can't be anything in it can there? I begin to feel as if I were not quite safe myself. Mad-doctors go mad themselves, they say. I wonder what sort of floating sporule carries the infection reaching the brain by the nose, I fancy.
Lynch him like a dog that steals sheep right off the reel, and save mad-doctors, skary judges, and Chartist papers all the trouble of findin' excuses. And, if that didn't do, Chinese like, they'd take the whole crowd present and sarve them out. They'd be sure to catch the right one then.
According to certain mad-doctors, suicide is in some temperaments the closing phase of mental aberration; and since his arrest Lucien had been possessed by that single idea. Esther's letter, read and reread many times, increased the vehemence of his desire to die by reminding him of the catastrophe of Romeo dying to be with Juliet. This is what he wrote: "This is my Last Will and Testament.
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