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If he had been a citizen of the Southern States, he might have suborned witnesses to prove that there was black blood in the veins of Valentine Hawkehurst. If he had not been opposed to so strong an opponent as Dr. Jedd, he might have tried to get a commission of lunacy to declare Charlotte Halliday a madwoman, and thus invalidate her marriage. As it was, he knew that he could do nothing.
He thanked Mr Selwin for his attention, which he said he was afraid was of little avail, as I was every year becoming more deranged; and he expressed his fears that it would terminate in chronic lunacy "His poor father died in the same state," continued my uncle, passing his hand across his eyes, as if much affected. "I have brought my physician with me, to see if he can be moved.
There's plenty of game for the hunting, and easy got, but it's something to think about we'll need, else we'll all go loony." "You have lived long here alone and seem sound of mind, except for " Harry King smiled, "except for a certain unworldliness that would pass for lunacy in the world below these heights." "Let alone, son.
"And now," said Vizard, "it is our last day in Homburg. You are all going to gratify your mania lunacy is contagious. Suppose I gratify mine." "Do dear," said Zoe; "and what is it?" "I like your asking that; when it was publicly announced last night, and I fled discomfited to my balcony, and, in my confusion, lighted a cigar. My mania is the Klosking." "That is not a mania; it is good taste.
After years of inconceivable misery, however, lust did deepen into absolute lunacy, and the crooked, misshapen monster was carried off to an asylum, where he died, and the father well-nigh went there too. Before I had been six months amongst the Unitarians, I found life even more intolerable with them than it had been with the Independents. The difference of a little less belief was nothing.
The opponents of the little finger theory would therefore be pretty sure to allege that the amputations were spreading cancer and lunacy. The vaccination controversy is full of such contentions. So is the controversy as to the docking of horses' tails and the cropping of dogs' ears.
"Hang the girl! there were we breaking our hearts for her, and she was alive." She had "beguiled them of their tears." Othello. But they still loved her quite well enough to take charge of her fate. A sort of itch for settling other people's destinies, and so gaining a title to their curses for our pragmatical and fatal interference, is the commonest of all the forms of sanctioned lunacy.
The word "lunacy," as we know, comes from "luna," the belief in the good old days being that the moon exercised a profound influence on the wits of sundry people. I'm told that the idea still holds good in certain quarters, and that if the wind is east and the moon shows a horn on which you can hang a flatiron, certain persons are looked upon askance and the children cautioned to avoid them.
'No, anything but sausages! Torp, I've been starving on that accursed horse-flesh for thirty days and thirty nights. 'Now, what lunacy has been your latest? Dick spoke of the last few weeks with unbridled speech. Then he opened his coat; there was no waistcoat below. 'I ran it fine, awfully fine, but I've just scraped through. 'You haven't much sense, but you've got a backbone, anyhow.
"No, uncle; the Marquise d'Espard is a high and puissant lady, who has laid before the Courts a petition desiring that a Commission in Lunacy should sit on her husband, and you are appointed " "And you want me to dine with her! Are you mad?" said the lawyer, taking up the code of proceedings.
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