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Here the rest of the party found Mark behaving himself rather like a recently-escaped lunatic: he was jumping up and down, then tossing his cap into the air, then leaning back on the bank, holding his sides, and every now and then crying out while the tears rolled over his cheeks. "Oh dear! Oh dear! What shall I do? Old Tanky's coming to our juvenile party."
Pike was so convinced of the correctness of his diagnosis that he tried to bribe the carpenter into having his appendix removed." She broke off to laugh heartily, then added: "They say he offered the poor man just pounds and pounds of tobacco to consent to the operation." "But is it safe . . . for the . . . the working of the ship," I urged, "to take such a lunatic along?"
If a farmer went on sowing, spring after spring, and never reaping in the autumn, you would say he was a fit subject for the lunatic asylum. No; he is always looking forward to the time when he will reap the reward of his toil. He never expects that the seed he has sown will be lost.
It was inconceivable, incredible. Kara was a lunatic, but the directing genius was a devil. T. X. had a flat in Whitehall Gardens and thither he repaired to change for dinner. He was half dressed when the evening paper arrived and he glanced as was his wont first at the news' page and then at the advertisement column.
I'll start Constable Denslow 'round town to see what he can see. If he's sly enough and she's still here he prob'ly can locate her. And if he can scare her off, so much the better." Constable Denslow, intrusted with only scant and vague information, began his search for a supposed escaped lunatic that day. Before nightfall he reported to the Cap'n that there were no strangers in town.
But, as I have already had the honor to tell you, when you have once fixed upon the value of your intellectual capital, for it is intellectual capital, seize that idea firmly, intellectual " "I understand," said the fool. "You sign a policy of insurance with a company which recognizes in you a value of a hundred thousand crowns; in you, poet " "I am a painter," said the lunatic.
M , with so seasonable and unexpected a reinforcement, than an unforeseen difficulty arose, concerning the payment of G 's six-thousand-pound bond. That money was to have been raised out of the estate of a lunatic, which could not be done without the leave of the Court of Chancery, to whom an account must have been given of the intended application of it.
Rowcliffe had seen women made bitter, made morbid, driven into lunatic asylums by fathers who were as funny as Mr. Cartaret. "You wouldn't, you wouldn't," she said. "He's funnier than you've any idea of." "Is he ever ill?" "Never." "That of course makes it difficult." "Except colds in his head. But he wouldn't have you for a cold in his head. He wouldn't have you for anything if he could help it."
"Boss!" he protested. "That's just a sketchy outline," said Jimmy, pausing for breath. "I can't do you justice impromptu like this you're too vast and overwhelming." "But, boss, what's eatin' you? Ain't youse tickled?" "Tickled!" Jimmy sawed the air. "Tickled! You lunatic! Can't you see what you've done?" "I've got dem," said Spike, whose mind was not readily receptive of new ideas.
This was unusual, for though they called him a lunatic in words, they called him sane by all their acts. He thought the commissioners must be in the house; had he known who really was in the house he would have beaten himself to pieces against the door. At dinner there was a new patient, very mild and silent, with a beautiful mild brown eye like some gentle animal's.
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