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Garfield saw plainly that he was quite unfit to fill any government post, and he refused to employ him. Thereupon Guiteau's heart was filled with hate against the President. He brooded over his wrongs till his hate became madness, and in this madness he determined to kill his enemy. Since he took up office the President had been hard at work.

Presently glancing at Heliobas, who stood patiently waiting till he should have overcome whatever emotions were at work in his mind, he smiled. "You must think me mad!" he said. "Perhaps I am, but if so, it is the madness of love that has seized me.

The way I was going could lead no-whither save to madness or the cloister; I had so lost my wits in self, that I weened that I had done my part for my brother when I had humbly entreated their Majesties to vouchsafe him their gracious pardon, and had signed my name to certain petitions in favor of the accused.

She had heard from Lady Gosstre that there was something like madness in the Barrett family. Once, when she had mentioned her care for her father, he had cried out upon the name of father with violence, looking unlike himself.

Varied by reproaches of me for my former inveterate blindness, he raved upon Janet's madness incessantly, swearing that he would not be beaten.

The canon gazed at him, wondering at the extraordinary nature of his madness, and that in all his remarks and replies he should show such excellent sense, and only lose his stirrups, as has been already said, when the subject of chivalry was broached.

Had they been placed on a lower level, they would have been much more effective. Before the guns could be again loaded, sparks in thick showers began to descend from the roof, and unhappily some fell among our cartridges. An explosion followed, severely injuring one of our men. To stay longer where we were would have been madness.

If I had done that, then you might have the right to blame." If he had overcome every other difficulty in the way to an heroic pose there was still Hugh's unconquerable lucidity of outlook. War was a madness.... But what else was to be done? What else could be done? We could not give in to Germany. If a lunatic struggles, sane men must struggle too.... Mr.

Another instance of the Effect of the Association of Ideas. A friend of mine knew one perfectly cured of madness by a very harsh and offensive operation.

It was now too late to gain the sea, for the Danish ships had already reached the mouth of the river. To attempt to escape by fighting would be madness, and they hesitated only whether to run the ship ashore, and, leaving her there, enter the town and share in its defence, or to proceed up the river with all speed to Rouen, or even to Paris.