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We may be so made as to be particularly fond of lunatics or specially interested in leprosy. We may love negroes because they are black or German Socialists because they are pedantic. But we have to love our neighbour because he is there a much more alarming reason for a much more serious operation. He is the sample of humanity which is actually given us.
On my return, I was in the mood to walk softly and on tiptoe, so I undressed and went to bed in the dark. Then they came again to my window, those two lunatics, the lady and the actor. What next? But it was not he that chose this spot; of that I was sure. She chose it because she was convinced I had returned. There was something she wanted me to hear.
I believe that if any party or person were to announce or declare such a thing, whether by annexation with the neighbouring country, the great republic to the south of us, or by declaring for independence, I believe that the people of Canada would say 'No. We are content, we are prosperous, we have prospered under the flag of England; and I say that it would be unwise, that we should be lunatics, to change the certain present happiness for the uncertain chances of the future.
He had represented it as their fixed and secret intention, after Don John should be finally established on the throne of England, to attack Philip himself in Spain, and to deprive him of his crown, Escovedo being represented as the prime instigator and controller of this astounding plot, which lunatics only could have engendered, and which probably never had existence.
As for Chieftain let the stable-boss, who knows horse-nature better than most men know themselves, tell that part of the story. "Bigger lunatics than them two, Tim Doyle and old Chieftain, I never set eyes on," he says. "I was standin' down here by the double doors watchin' some of the day-teams unhook when I looks up the street on a sudden.
Lunatics, she knew, could be quelled by the calm gaze of the sane human eye. She gave one look, and held out both hands with a joyous cry. "Oh, it's you! I am so glad! Where did you come from? Oh, how wet you are!" Then she sat down on the thwart and said no more, because of the choking feeling in her throat that told her very exactly just how frightened she had been. "You!"
All these and more I had seen, but all had possessed one common peculiarity which betrayed them as belonging to that large and unhappy class we term lunatics, and their mental disorder was revealed in a clear, glittering glance, cold and keen as a steel blade.
But say, but what did they think of my mine?" "Think!" exclaimed Bunker, "they stopped thinking right here, when I showed 'em that big vein of copper! They went crazy, just like lunatics; because it ain't often, I'm telling you, that you find sixty-per-cent copper on the surface." "Not in a fissure vein no," agreed Denver emphatically, "I wouldn't sell out for a million.
He made ducks and drakes of not only her money, but Johnny's too, and had to skip to Spain to avoid the trustees. And Johnny for the Sluysdaels are all fools or lunatics made over his whole separate income to that wretched, fashionable fool of a mother, and went into a stockbroker's office as a clerk."
I did not tell her about the bonfire which we had in the back quad after supper, because I am sure she would have thought that either I was lying or that most of the men in St. Cuthbert's were a set of lunatics. Two or three dons, who could appreciate festivities, danced round the bonfire quite happily, and evidently enjoyed themselves.
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