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Courage, Eugene Aram! thy mind, for which thou hast lived, and for which thou hast hazarded thy soul if soul and mind be distinct from each other thy mind can support thee yet through every peril: not till thou art stricken into idiotcy, shalt thou behold thyself defenceless.
Madame Camusot waited for no more; she rushed out of her room and flew to her husband's study. She found the lawyer sitting in an armchair, pale and dazed, his legs stretched out, his head against the back of it, his hands hanging limp, exactly as if he were sinking into idiotcy. "What is the matter, my dear?" said the young woman in alarm.
"But," he added, after a pause "but mind me, Fanny, you must like this gentleman. He will be always good to you: and he had a little brother whom he was as fond of as I am of you." "No, I won't like him I won't like anybody but you and my sister!" "Sister! who is your sister?" The child's face relapsed into an expression almost of idiotcy. "I don't know I never saw her.
Were she not to do so, he would fall into a state of wailing and complaining that would exaggerate itself almost to idiotcy. And it was imperative that she herself should exercise her own opinion on many points, almost without reference to him. She alone knew how utterly destitute she would be when he should die.
But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration of it, if only her precious person were secure from injury! Now, was it not the depth of absurdity of genuine idiotcy, for that pitiful, slavish, mean-minded brach to dream that I could love her? Tell your master, Nelly, that I never, in all my life, met with such an abject thing as she is.
If she was half as fond of the man as he believed, it was probable that she would be delighted to marry anybody else in order to save his precious neck, for that was just the kind of sentimental idiotcy of which nine women out of ten really enjoyed the indulgence. Moreover, this scheme had other merits; it did every one a good turn.
'But I'll not believe this idiotcy! It is impossible that you can covet the admiration of Heathcliff that you consider him an agreeable person! I hope I have misunderstood you, Isabella? 'No, you have not, said the infatuated girl. 'I love him more than ever you loved Edgar, and he might love me, if you would let him!
Down in yon cellar, where a farthing rushlight glimmers upon haggard cheeks, distorted with the idiotcy of drink; there, in that foul attic, from whose casement you see the beggar's rags hang to dry, or rather to crumble in the reeking and filthy air; farther on, within those walls which, black and heavy as the hearts they hide, close our miserable prospect, there, even there, in the mildewed dungeon, in the felon's cell, on the very scaffold's self, Ambition hugs her own hope or scowls upon her own despair.
Oh, Norbert, it was but the happiness of our future life that I strove to protect. It was " Her speech failed her, and her eyes dilated with horror, for the door behind Norbert opened, and the Duke de Champdoce entered the room, uttering a string of meaningless words, and laughing with that mirthless laugh which is so sure a sign of idiotcy.
Courage, Eugene Aram! thy mind, for which thou hast lived, and for which thou hast hazarded thy soul if soul and mind be distinct from each other thy mind can support thee yet through every peril: not till thou art stricken into idiotcy, shalt thou behold thyself defenceless.
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