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I have given up valuable evenings through several consecutive winters to dark séances; have had my hair pulled, my head thumped with paper tubes, and suffered other indignities at the hands of the "Invisibles;" and, worse than all, my friends have looked upon me as a lunatic for my pains, and if my enemies could have wrought their will they would have incarcerated me as non compos, or made an auto-da-fe of me as a heretic years ago.
"And you had no chance at all, though innocent?" "Yes, I had one, and I chose not to take it. I might have proved myself non compos mentis; but that involved my making a fool of myself in public before a jury, and I have too much dignity for that, I can tell you.
"Yes, blacks," said the professor. "It would not do to take white ones." "Very well, then, I'll go as a black." The doctor and the professor turned upon the speaker sharply, and fixed him with their eyes, as if doubtful about the state of his mind, gazing at him in silence, till he laughed merrily. "I have not lost a slate or tile," he said. "I am quite what Morris calls compos mentis."
Little Miss Flite, in "Bleak House," haunting the Law Courts in expectation of a judgment on the Day of Judgment, is certainly not compos mentis. And one may concede to M. Taine that some element of sadness must always be present when we see a human creature imperfectly gifted with man's noblest attribute of reason.
"Mr. Bennett," he said, "I don't want to do anybody any harm, and, if you know all about it, and she suits you, well and good; but I think it is my duty to inform you that your stenographer is not quite right in her head. I don't say she's dangerous, but she isn't compos. She decidedly is not compos, Mr. Bennett!" Mr. Bennett stared at his well-wisher dumbly for a moment.
"There are other scenarios to write." "Tom!" she whispered sharply, "I want to tell you something about that." "About what?" "My scenario." "You don't mean " "I mean I know what has become of it." "Never!" gasped Tom. "Are you are you " "I am not 'non compos, and-so-forth," laughed Ruth. "Oh, there is nothing foolish about this, Tom. Let me tell you."
That one of the servants, believing the captain to be a highwayman, presented a blunderbuss, and in all probability would have shot him on the spot, had not he, the nephew, rode up, and assured them the gentleman was non compos.
"I'll escort you to the hotel." "Oh, that's too kind!" exclaimed Miss Martha. "I'm not quite non compos. I can get out all right. It's the getting in that's the puzzle." "But I have to go there myself. Judge Trent thought you might need a lieutenant. He has sent me to help you." The color rushed to Miss Martha's face. Calvin was thinking of her, after all. Her eyes glistened with sudden hope.
And tell me, lanna machree, is my suspicions right in what I hear tell me the worst at oncet is she non compos?" "Oh, I never heerd her called by that name before," sobbed Oonah, "but she has a great many others just as bad." "Ow! ow! ow!" exclaimed Andy. "Now I know what Misther Dick laughed at; well, death before dishonour I'll go 'list for a sojer, and never live with her!"
"I am only concerned," said he, "that you should take any step that might tend to the disgrace of yourself or your family; and I say again I had rather die than live to see you reckoned any otherwise than compos." "Die and be d ned! you shambling half-timber'd son of a ," cried the choleric Crowe; "dost talk to me of keeping a reckoning and compass?
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