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Such was the degree of madness which possessed, at that time, both the nation of the Aetolians and their magistrates. Quinctius and the ambassadors returned to Corinth.
The worst he had feared had happened, and more than the worst. It was now proved beyond all doubt that he was utterly incompetent. Would it not be sheer madness in him to attempt this impossible task a day longer? The reader has no doubt asked the same question long ago. Of course it's madness of him to attempt it.
Ah, surely this was the midsummer madness of which they had spoken! It was a vision that could not last, but the wonder of it ah, the wonder of it! she would carry for ever in her heart. It ended at length, but so softly, so tenderly, that, spellbound, she never knew when lingering sound became enduring silence.
"My dear friend," answered the old soldier and even his voice seemed to be bobbing up and down as he spoke "my dear friend, it would be madness to go home in your state; you would be sure to lose your money; you might be robbed and murdered with the greatest ease.
"What madness brought you here?" he said presently, as she turned at last and mustered a smile of thanks. She countered the question. "I might ask you the same," she said. His eyes contracted behind the shielding glasses. "So you might," he said briefly. "Well, I came on the chance of meeting you." "Of meeting me!" She looked at him in surprise. He nodded. "Just so.
The very quietness of her speech set an edge on horror. "God forbid!" "Ay, but men allow!" she answered drearily. "What if I was mad last night, and in my madness denied my Maker? I am sane to-day, but I must burn, if it be known! I must burn!" "Not by my mouth!" he cried, his brow damp with sweat. "Never, I swear it! If there be guilt, on my head be the guilt!" "You mean it?
Some people think that a great genius must be insane. 'Great wits are sure to madness near allied, you know. For my part, I consider Paolo the sublimest of men. When I saw him last I was only a boy, and he came with his seraphic face and his divine music to give me an inspiration which has biased my life ever since. I have only known one spirit like his among those whom I have met."
But, to my shame and despair, I was at last forced to remark that her heart was alienated from me, and that I might now have good ground for the madness in which I had indulged without necessity and without cause. There were also terrible scenes between us, in which I gained nothing; and I then first felt that I had truly loved her, and could not bear to lose her.
I think they were not in the way of going into tame animals; but, as they must go out of the man, as they greatly dreaded the abyss of the disembodied, and as no ferocious animals fit to harbour them were near, they begged leave to go into such as were accessible, though unsuitable; whereupon the natural consequence followed: their presence made the poor swine miserable even to madness, and with the instinct of so many maniacs that in death alone lies their deliverance, they rushed straight into the loch."
When the venerated curé of the village, after previously endeavouring in every possible way by Christian exhortation to prepare his aged mother to hear the sad tale, informed her that these remnants of humanity was all that was left of her boy, she laughed alas! it was the laugh of madness reason had fled!
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