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It was Sylvia's turn to shudder, but she controlled it quickly, and spoke very quietly. "I was married for two years to a man who finally died of delirium tremens. No paid nurse would have stayed with him through certain times. I can't tell you about it, dear, and I'm trying hard to forget it you won't ask me about it again, will you?" "Oh, Sylvia! Please forgive me!
"He is my gamekeeper," said the laird; "and there is not a better or more trustworthy man in the island, when he is sober; but when he takes one of his drinking fits, he seems to lose all control over himself, and goes from bad to worse, till a fit of delirium tremens almost kills him.
"Look for a row of women's ugly wooden heads painted by some one suffering from delirium tremens," said Miss Susie Capper as they turned down West Forty-sixth Street. "It's a dressmaker's, although you might think it was an asylum for dope fiends. I've got a bedroom, sitter and bath on the top floor.
He was still at the same drinking-shop, but could not be induced to leave it. At last they found him with the incipient horrors of delirium tremens, and yet they could not get him away. The man who kept the place was quite used to delirium tremens, and thought nothing about it. When Caldigate tried a high moral tone everybody around him laughed at him.
And the same truths which consoled the hard-working, self-denying curate are also made to redeem Janet herself, and secure for her a true repentance. This heroine of the story is the wife of a drunken, brutal village doctor, who dies of delirium tremens; she also is the slave of the same degrading habit which destroys her husband, but, unlike him, is a victim of remorse and shame.
I tell you it was an affecting scene, March; and rats enough round in that old barracks where he lives to fit out a first-class case of delirium tremens. What does he stay there for? He's not obliged to?"
He had one early in the spring, just before he came to me. 'An attack like this one an attack of 'Delirium tremens. Not quite so bad as this last, from his own account; but then one can never quite trust a patient's account. And you say he is better now? 'Yes; he has been in his room all to-day, writing or reading. He seems dull and low-spirited, that is all. 'No delusions to-day?
"None; unless you will let Brown and Smith play upon tick." "Pooh! but there's Robinson, he has an aunt he can borrow from?" "Robinson! spitting blood, with an attack of delirium tremens! You have done for him." "'Can sorrow from the goblet flow?" said Losely.
'No, it was not true that he had ever been confined in a mad house. 'He had never had delirium tremens. 'He had never heard that his wife thought him mad. 'Yes, it was true he had pledged silver of his master's at the Pied Horse at Newmarket' 'He knew it was a felony, but it was the prisoner who put it into his head and encouraged him to do it. 'Yes, he would swear to that. 'He had several times spoken to Lord Dunoran, when passing under the name of Mervyn, on the subject of his father being wronged. 'He never had any promise from my lord, in case he should fix the guilt of that murder on some other than his father. Our friend, Captain Cluffe, was called, and delivered his evidence in a somewhat bluff and peremptory, but on the whole effective way.
For her mother being dead, her father, finding himself not likely to recover, after his third attack of delirium tremens, wrote a manly and pathetic letter to Miss Pinkerton, recommending the orphan child to her protection, and so descended to the grave, after two bailiffs had quarrelled over his corpse.
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