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Or is it that all these stories of mad stampedes and of chaotic anarchy breaking loose here and there anarchy gibbering, blind, profligate and senselessly cruel are true only of exceptional communities, as yet unaffected by the great lift which optimists confidently believe in, and which they unhesitatingly assure us is steadily going on?
Some small gratification was given to her, and she departed gibbering and muttering in high glee.
Did not an exquisite poet, from the very height of reputation, fall, a gibbering sot, into the gutter, on his way to be married to one of the fairest daughters of New England, and at the very hour when the bride was decking herself for the altar; and did he not die of delirium tremens, almost unattended, in a New York hotel?
When one thinks of the real facts of human life, and tries to conceive of the frightful meanness and passion and hate and wretchedness that have been howling and shrieking and gibbering and groaning through dreary millenniums, one's brain reels, and hope seems to be absurdity, and joy a sin against our fellows, as a feast would be in a house next door to where was a funeral.
"I have it!" he cried; and Archimedes could not have uttered his famous word with a greater thrill. "Emmy, I have it!" He stood before her gibbering with inspiration. At his cry she raised a tear-stained face and regarded him amazedly. "You have what?" "The solution. It is so simple, so easy. Why shouldn't we have run away together?" "We did," said Emmy. "But really to get married." "Married?"
As the inhabitants arose from their slumbers, and sallied forth into the streets to inquire the cause of the disturbance, they soon discovered that they had, in some mysterious manner, been entrapped. Wild Irishmen, with uncouth garb, threatening gesture, and unintelligible jargon, stood gibbering at every corner, instead of the comfortable Flemish faces of the familiar burgher-guard.
When it became dark, excited by the deep anxiety I had endured throughout the day, I could not sleep. I fancied I beheld through the darkness monstrous forms mocking and gibbering, and high above them all was reared the head of the enormous python I had combated in the Happy Valley.
On the contrary, all were in motion. Their arms were tossing wildly above their heads, while they themselves were leaping upward or dancing to and fro wherever they could find footing. They were shouting in tones of despair, screaming in agonised accents; while some, who had evidently gone mad, were gibbering and laughing in voices that bore a striking resemblance to that of the hyena!
Rather that than let the first insane capering of his intellect unhorse him and leave him gibbering after a vanished mount. The incoherence of the Journal suddenly glides into an adagio. The panic has ended. And the lifeless eyed man again smiles triumphant out of the pages. "My room is red. It is hung with red curtains. I have bought only red things to put in it.
We were all blown across the room and Madame de Clerté and I fell in a heap together by the door, which gave way outwards Odette's shrieks made us think that she was hurt, but she was not, and subsided into a gibbering prayer Maurice helped Madame de Clerté to rise and I turned on the torch I keep in my pocket, for a minute. I was not conscious of any pain.
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