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Why should that semi-insanity in Denzil's eyes disturb him? The one thing to do was to forge ahead. He nodded. "Where are you taking me?" he asked presently, as they passed through the gate. "To my little house by the Three Trees. I've got things I'd like to show you, and there's some things I'd like to say.
In fact, Orland in his condition of semi-insanity threatened to resign, and when the insulted Duke Maximilian showed signs of accepting the resignation, it was the wife that saved the family from disgrace and poverty. He was left undisturbed in his post, but, before long, death forced the acceptance of his resignation.
He began by being jolly; he was well encouraged and abetted; he found that respectable men drank, and that Society made no demur. But he forgot that there are drinkers and drinkers, he forgot that the cool-headed men were not tainted by heredity, nor were their brains so delicately poised that the least grain of foreign matter introduced in the form of vapour could cause semi-insanity.
Hastening to the upper room, he discovered the old man in a state of semi-insanity, marching up and down the apartment, and carrying in his hands only a valuable viola. So confused was he with fright that main force was required to get him out of the room.
They were a little pale, but quite collected. "Excellency," they said, "forgive him; it is not his fault. He has been frightened into semi-insanity." "Hsia hu-tu-lo," they said. Yes, that is the phrase, frightened into semi-lunacy. They are employing this for everyone.
Thus, Squire Silcote, the clever old ex-lawyer, is made to retire from the world and brood for many years, and on quite insufficient grounds, in the belief that his first wife had been unfaithful, and had tried to poison him. Nothing short of a condition of semi-insanity could explain his conduct. In other respects the character is finely conceived.
It is not the representation of semi-insanity that he gives: he himself is its representative. Instead of commanding it, and bringing it into some sort of healthy relation with us, he is swayed and carried away by it. His genius flourished upon him like a destructive flame, and the ashes that it left, are like a deadly powdered poison.
For what else has he unsealed the eyes of Sancho; and instead of that twilight state of semi-insanity the madness at second-hand the contagion, caught from a stronger mind infected that war between native cunning, and hereditary deference, with which he has hitherto accompanied his master two for a pair almost does he substitute a downright Knave, with open eyes, for his own ends only following a confessed Madman; and offering at one time to lay, if not actually laying, hands upon him!
Anxiety possessed him, and he swiftly devised means to be rid of Krool before harm could be done. He was certain harm was meant there was a look of semi-insanity in Krool's eyes. Krool must be put out of the way before he could speak with the Baas.... But how? With a great effort Stafford controlled himself.
For a second he hung, swaying, above the abyss. Cyril, scared into semi-insanity by sight of the sudden brief battle, had caught up a stick from the rubbish at his feet. With this, not at all knowing what he did, he smote the struggling Lad with every atom of his feeble force, over the head. Luckily for the gallant dog, the stick was rotten.
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