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According to them, for the pleasure of shocking the imperial city with the sacrilege of a bigamous union, she actually did marry him in Rome, with the most solemn religious rites, while Claudius was at Ostia! But is this credible, at least without admitting that Messalina had suddenly gone insane?
Would the desire for food not come and with a saner condition of mind if they were permitted their own ways of eating? A physically strong woman, whom I knew well, was sent to a hospital for the insane in a generally bad state of mind, with destructive propensities marked. With no desire for food, and certainly with no mind to realize the need to eat without hunger, she naturally refused to eat.
The system of reform under the indeterminate sentence, which for convenience may be called the Elmira system, is scientific, and it must be administered entirely by trained men and by specialists; the same sort of training for the educational and industrial work as is required in a college or an industrial school, and the special fitness required for an alienist in an insane asylum.
This crowning honor the apothecary was insane enough to decline, and Agricola went away with many professions of endearment, but secretly offended because Joseph had not asked about his wound. All the same the apothecary, without loss of time, departed for the yellow-washed cottage, Number 19 rue Bienville.
It is a tolerably insane amusement for a foreigner to go tramping over wild fields and valleys in Northern Norway with no other guide than the thing they call an ordnance map and a bit of a pocket-compass. And to do the same without intent to slay the beasts, the birds, or the fish of the country seems, to my way of thinking, even more mad still.
I did not know six words of English, and I was astute enough to understand that it was much better to say nothing of my purpose. As it was I was already looked upon as partly insane, at least by the more distant acquaintances. The principal thing was to get away.
"No; I beg your pardon, Sybil. I thought you were my loving wife," he said. "You were mistaken. I am not Rosa Blondelle!" she cried. "Hush! hush! my dearest Sybil!" he muttered earnestly, as he went and closed and locked the parlor door, to save her from being seen by the servants in her present insane passion. But she swept past him like a storm, and laid her hand on the lock. She found it fast.
"Because of the course I had taken many misunderstood me and thought I was partially insane. Even your dear papa thinks so still, but I dare not grieve God by going back. "I have had some dreams that have greatly encouraged me. The first was given while I was wondering why I could not find any one who believed the whole Bible.
I have never seen my husband since." And Corona dropped her face upon her hands and sobbed as if her heart would break. She had utterly broken down for the first time. "Good heavens! I don't understand it all! Had you had a lover's quarrel now in that hour when you talked together in this parlor?" inquired the old gentleman, his insane anger being now merged in wonder.
"Avast there!" shouted Cap'n Ira, pounding with his cane on the floor. "That's going a deal too far. 'Christian duty, indeed! How about our duty to Ida May setting there, and to ourselves? Prudence is afraid of that crazy gal in the first place." "I give you my word she is not insane." "That's your opinion," said the captain grimly.
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