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Thus all went merry as a marriage bell until one dark and dismal day in December, when the rain fell in floods and the wind raved around the house, and the state of the weather kept the newly married couple closely confined within doors, his bride turned to him, and inquired quietly: "'Who is that little dark-haired girl with the piercing black eyes, and in the short red cloak, that I see so often around the house?
I said, my heart hardening itself against Richard, who could have spoken of my trouble to a stranger. "You, yourself," she answered me. "I have raved?" I said. "Yes." "And who has heard me?" "No one else. I sent every one else from the room whenever your delirium became intelligible." This made me grateful toward her; and I longed for sympathy. I threw my arms about her and wept bitterly.
In vain I raved, 'What is rank? There was a magnet in it that could at least set me quivering and twisting, behaving like a man spellbound, as madly as any hero of the ballads under a wizard's charm. At last the squire relieved us. He fixed that side-cast cock's eye of his on me, and said, 'Where 's your bankers' book, sir?
The men shouted and raved as they ran hither and thither, arming themselves and saddling their horses; while the shrieks of poor Dupont's widow mingled with those of the other women and the cries of the terrified children. "Half a dozen of you must keep the fort," said McLeod, when they were all assembled; "the others will be sufficient to punish these fiends. You'll help us, I suppose?"
"Open the door! do you hear?" shrieked one little treble voice. "All right!" piped another. "I know who you are, you cads. See if I don't tell Dr Senior!" "Oh, please, I say, I shall lose my train!" whimpered a third. "Wait till I get out; see if I don't kick your shins!" howled a fourth. It was no use. In vain these bantams stormed and raved, and entreated and blubbered.
He kissed the black lip of his little thunderer in, a rapture of passion; called it his wife, his naked wife; the best of mistresses, who spoke only when he charged her to speak; raved that she was fair, and liked hugging; that she was true, and the handsomest daughter of Italy; that she would be the mother of big ones none better than herself, though they were mountains of sulphur big enough to make one gulp of an army.
I have read about men in love, I have seen it on the stage, I have seen it in real life, but I never saw a man so grateful to God and so happy and so insane over a woman as this man was. He raved about her when he was feverish, and he talked and talked to me about her when he was in his senses.
Somers, conscious of innocence, knew that it was wise as well as right to be perfectly ingenuous, and resolved that there should be no concealment. His friends stood manfully by him, and his enemies struck at him with such blind fury that their blows injured only themselves. Howe raved like a maniac. "What is to become of the country, plundered by land, plundered by sea?
Fear of some wretched male baseness on the part of their brother was happily diverted by a letter, wherein he desired them to come to him speedily. They attributed her conduct to dread of Mr. Pericles. Nor could they satisfactorily answer the question. He raved: "You let her go. Ha! what creatures you are hein?
The women now all struggled for a superiority in giving unbounded vent to apparently the most distracting grief. Some raved like maniacs, others beat their breasts and tore their hair. Exclamations, cries, sobs and shrieks mingled, and united in forming one mighty tide of clamor, uproar, noise and confusion.
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