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A thousand times, amongst the phantoms of sleep, have I seen thee entering the gates of the golden dawn, with the secret word riding before thee, with the armies of the grave behind thee, seen thee sinking, rising, raving, despairing; a thousand times in the worlds of sleep have I seen thee followed by God's angel through storms, through desert seas, through the darkness of quicksands, through dreams and the dreadful revelations that are in dreams; only that at the last, with one sling of His victorious arm, He might snatch thee back from ruin, and might emblazon in thy deliverance the endless resurrections of His love!
"We should be very much obliged," said Mollie, with forced politeness, "if you would tell us what you're raving about." "Goodness, don't you even see there is a mystery?" she cried, facing them impatiently. "How in the world could Sergeant Mullins ever be Mrs. Sanderson's son?" "You'd better ask 'em," chuckled Mollie. "They both seemed so tolerably sure of it that we've taken it for granted.
Dobbin was not a little affected by the sight of this once kind old friend, crazed almost with misfortune and raving with senile anger. Pity the fallen gentleman: you to whom money and fair repute are the chiefest good; and so, surely, are they in Vanity Fair. "Yes," he continued, "there are some vipers that you warm, and they sting you afterwards.
It were wise when out in the desert, if your horse is not desert-trained, to hang on to the bridle until you have hobbled or hitched your steed, lest peradventure the vultures, at a discreet distance, should assemble about you later, as you lie raving upon the sands, only waiting until your ravings cease altogether, to approach quite near to you.
'No. She is dead. I jumped out of bed. 'Dead? Susanna? Dead? Fustov turned his eyes away again. 'Yes; she is dead; she died at midnight. 'He's raving! crossed my mind. 'At midnight! And what's the time now? 'It's eight o'clock in the morning now. They sent to tell me. She is to be buried to-morrow. I seized him by the hand. 'Alexander, you're not delirious? Are you in your senses?
"'Love her! he repeated, in the utmost astonishment; 'what on earth is there in her to love? She's nothing but a bad translation of a modern French comedy, with the interest omitted. "This 'tired' me to use an Americanism. 'You came to me a month ago, I said, 'raving over her, and talking about being the dirt under her feet and kissing her doorstep. "He turned very red.
The young man was perpetually raving about some indescribable den of horror which was own brother to Lessingham's temple and about some female monster, whom he regarded with such fear and horror that every allusion he made to her was followed by a convulsive paroxysm which taxed all the ingenuity of his medical attendants to bring him out of.
A dark curtain of cloud was lifted up, and a pale blue rent shone between its foot and the edge of the sea, out from which rushed an icy storm of frozen wind, that tore the waters into spray as it passed, and flung the billows in raving heaps upon the desolate shore. I could bear it no longer. "I will not be tortured to death," I cried; "I will meet it half-way.
"Our friends were just going away oh, I forgot to tell you that of course they came; we had a most delightful time, and dear Lottie no, Lizzie I always do forget which is which I can't remember, but it doesn't matter was the life and soul of the party; however, as I was saying, they were just going away, and I was there at the gate seeing them off, when the butcher's boy came running up and warned them on no account to venture into the road, as Hunt's dog that's the butcher, you know I mean Hunt is had gone raving mad, and was loose upon the streets.
That he might be a man of some importance at home was evident, but he had lost his head in the bustle of this great town, and was at the mercy of all advisers, none of whom could understand his mongrel language. As we came out to take the horse-car, he saw his helpless daughters driven off in one hack, while he was raving among his meal-bags on the sidewalk.
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