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"Possibly you are right, Miss Porter," he said, "but I do not think that any of us need worry about our carrion-eating acquaintance. The chances are that he is some half-demented castaway who will forget us more quickly, but no more surely, than we shall forget him. He is only a beast of the jungle, Miss Porter." The girl did not answer, but she felt her heart shrivel within her.
I spent most of my day at a desk in the big central reading room, but at night I haunted the Young Men's Union, thus adding myself to a dubious collection of half-demented, ill-clothed derelicts, who suffered the contempt of the attendants by reason of their filling all the chairs and monopolizing all the newspaper racks.
Where one man went down before him, two remorselessly appeared the room seemed filled with men they poured in through the door he laughed at them in a half-demented way more and more of them came there was no play for his arms, no room to fight they seemed so close around him, so many of them upon him, that he could not breathe and he was bending, being crushed down as by an intolerable weight.
Why did I follow Ossian over Morven's battle-fields, exulting in the vulture-screams of the blind scald over his fallen enemies? Still later, why did the newspapers furnish me with subjects for hero-worship in the half-demented Sir Gregor McGregor, and Ypsilanti at the head of his knavish Greeks?
"Listen," said the half-demented Clayton. "You must watch all to-morrow morning, down below, upon the sidewalk, and around the entrance. "If that lady comes, just detain her down there, and I will join her at once. Not a word to a living soul. Swear that you'll keep this secret, and I'll make your fortune yet."
"Was I given the drug deliberately?" asked Gabrielle, looking at me with her wonderful wide-open eyes eyes so different from those dulled fixed ones which I had seen in the Duomo in old Florence, when she had raised herself from praying in her half-demented state while the sinister Italian doctor stood behind her. "Yes," I said.
"But then," said the nurse, "unless life changes all through for Sal, it might be worse to be beaten and starved and feel conscious of it, than to be beaten and starved in a half-demented condition." "Oh, don't put it that way!" said Gloria. "I could not help thinking how little you can see of what her life all these years has been you with your young sheltered life." Gloria's face softened.
No physician ever advised the destroying vice you are practicing, and no physician would take offence at your words any more than at the half-demented ravings of a fever patient. You are in a very critical condition, sir, and unless you can wake up to the truth and put forth more will-power than most men possess you will soon go to the bad."
Hale's door, where he so lustily rung, that an immediate response was given to his summons, the man of science putting his head through the window and asking in peremptory tones who was there. 'It's me, doctor me Matt, yo' know Matt Heap th' missis is i' bed, and some bad an' o'. Ne'er mind dressin'. Come naa; and the half-demented man panted for breath. 'I'll be with you in a minute, Matt.
But let me call father. Father! father! Chut! the man's as deaf as little Tom Hommy. Father!" called Grannie, bustling about at the stair-head in a half-demented way. There was some commotion below, and the voice on the stairs was saying, "This way? No, sir. That way, if you plaze." "D'ye hear him, Kirry?" cried Grannie, putting her head back into the room. "That's the man himself.
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