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He had been half-mad for weeks during the siege and now seemed quite crazy as he rode. It was he who had again and again volunteered to play the part of executioner to all the wretched coolies engaged in sapping under our lines who had been captured from time to time, and whose heads had at once paid the last penalty.
"Who is it that is such an enemy of hers?" Max hesitated a moment. "It might very well be some former actor, some poor devil of a fellow down on his luck, who has brooded over his fancied wrongs till he was half-mad," he said, at length. Diana's eyes flashed. So that item of news intended for the morning papers was also to be handed out for home consumption!
"Oh, nothing particular," said Morris carelessly, "the vividness was concerned with your appearance; that was what startled me." Then he fell back into the train of thought that had occupied him all the way down from London. "I believe I was half-mad with rage last night," he said at length, "but this afternoon, I think I am beginning to be sane again.
It was evident that they had never got on during her mother's lifetime, and that his habitual bantering or sarcastic tone towards her while she was still in the school-room had roused an answering resentment in her. Hence the aggressive mood in which, after two or three months of that half-mad whirl of gaiety into which London had plunged after the Armistice, she had come down to Beechmark.
The half-mad lord was so singular in his ways that it might well be that he should speak handsomely of a rival behind his back and yet take him by the throat as soon as they were together, face to face. And yet, as Phineas thought, it was necessary that he should see the half-mad lord.
Gorgeous cushions, pieces of plate, costly apparel strewed the cabin in barbaric confusion. What the two lads gazed at, however, was this bizarre figure of a despot who held the power of life and death. It was one of his quieter interludes when he laid aside the ferocious and bombastic play-acting which made it hard to discover whether he was very cunning or half-mad.
She was pleading with Richard, she was talking to Nina she was making little of it making much of it she was saying a reluctant "yes yes yes!" to their questioning. At four o'clock she dressed herself again, half-mad with headache and fatigue, and went out into a world that was just beginning to brighten into faint shapes and colours.
Sun-worship is the beginning of all religions. To the genius of the epileptic Paul, or Saul, founders of religions are always epilepts, a half Greek and disciple of the Pharisee Gamaliel, who saw visions and put to the sword his enemies, to Paul, called a saint, a man of overwhelming personal force, to this cruel anarchist, relentless, half-mad fanatic and his theological doctrines we owe the preservation and power of the Christian Church.
And then there were serious debates whether he might not have stolen the money without much sin, being mad or half-mad, touched with madness when he took it; and whether he might not, in spite of such temporary touch of madness, be well fitted for his parish duties.
He went into the playground only one boy, Gilks, was prowling about there, half-mad with toothache, and either unable or unwilling to give him any information. He looked in at Parrett's, no one was there, and even the schoolhouse seemed desolate. The captain returned to his study and waited in anything but a placid frame of mind. He felt utterly humbled and crestfallen.
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