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It should be remembered that not many weeks prior to this Sunday afternoon, the people of London, maddened by hunger, fear, and bewildered panic, had stormed Westminster to enforce their demand for surrender, and had seen Von Füchter with his bloodstained legions take possession of the capital of the British Empire.
And when this money was left to me you were maddened, you hated me, you showed it in every possible way, and made every one suffer for it; not an hour passes that you do not spit out the bile that is choking you." Pierre clenched his fist in his fury with an almost irresistible impulse to fly at his brother and seize him by the throat. "Hold your tongue," he cried.
Thus Trenholme had walked across the fields, into these groves but now, as he sat by the river, all that, for the time, had passed away, except as some indistinct memory of it maddened him. His heart was full of rage against his brother, rage too against the woman he loved; and with this rage warred most bitterly a self-loathing because he knew that his anger against them was unjust.
He did not at once understand the meaning of my question, but Dorothy did, and flushed crimson with anger. The sight of her disapproval and Madame Stewart's frowning face maddened me. "No," he said slowly, after a moment, "I did not leave the city, but hundreds of people did.
And when the prophecies are accomplished, and the stone cut out of the mountain without hands has filled the earth, and the apostasy which is to follow the general prevalence of religion, has deluged the world with blood, and Satan, loosed a little season, is triumphing in his maddened career, and the graves are full, and the souls under the altar, with their importunate cry, can no longer wait for the avenging arm, then shall be seen the sign of the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.
She would have liked to strike all men, to spit in their faces, to crush them, and she walked rapidly straight on, pale, quivering, maddened, searching the empty horizon with tear-dimmed eyes, and as it were rejoicing in the hate that was choking her. When she saw her house a numbness came over her. She could not go on; and yet she must. Besides, whither could she flee?
That her languishing glances irritated rather than maddened me, that the occasional covert pressure of her hot, thick hand left me cold, I felt a reproach to my manhood. I would fall in love with her. Surely my blood was red like other men's. Besides, was I not an artist, and was not profligacy the hall-mark of the artist? But one grows tired of the confessional.
Like the chafed, wounded, maddened bull, which his pursuers have surrounded, and which is drawing close about him his dying strength, for one last furious charge, was Harmon, when Kelly, with most provoking coolness, said, "Harmon, you shall leave that forecastle, or die there."
The trouble was once more money the bitterness of poverty, fresh-edged and keen. He must again, as always, appeal to his wife for help, and she would have to beg again from her father. The knowledge maddened him, for he had endured all that a man may endure at the hands of Herresford. The letter was short and emphatic: SIR, I am requested by my client, Mr. Yours truly, WILLIAM WISE.
Fools, maybe, but happy; happy to the very core thoroughly engrossed in their happiness. The elder brother was almost maddened by it. "He must mind what he does tell him so, Uncle Phineas it would be safer. He MUST mind, or I will not answer for myself. I was fond of Edwin I was indeed but now it seems sometimes as if I HATED him." "Guy!" "Oh, if it had been a stranger, and not he!
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