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This she did, at the risk of her very soul." "What did she do?" I asked in breathless enquiry. "Had recourse to opium" said Cousin Bessie with a curl of her lip, and a shrug of her honest shoulders. "And kept at it" she continued, "until she brought herself to where she is to day!" "Where?" I asked again, in a hushed whisper. "To the mad-house, for she has become a raving maniac.
Larkin continued to stare on him in silence, with his round eyes, for some seconds after. 'In a mad-house! Pooh, pooh! incredible! Pooh! impossible quite impossible. Did either Miss Lake or the captain use the word mad-house? 'Well, no. Or any other word lunatic asylum, or a bedlam, or or any other word meaning the same thing? 'Well, I can't say, Sir, as I remember; but I rayther think not.
I am fallen again into the same dream and illusion that happened to me a month ago, and must expect again the bastinado and grated cell at the mad-house. Almighty God," added he, "I commit myself into the hands of thy divine providence. He was a wicked man that I entertained at my house last night, who has been the cause of this illusion, and the hardships I must again undergo.
Instead of taking the rational view of it, however, and mercifully shutting up the actors in a mad-house, the authorities of that day, conceiving it to be a stupendous blasphemy, and themselves God's avengers in the matter, sent Nayler under strong guard up to London, to be examined before the Parliament.
His eyes and mouth opened, and remained open: in which state they kept turning, face and all as if on a pivot, from the picture to the women, and from the women to the picture. "Why, it is herself," he gasped. "Isn't it!" cried Kate, and her hostility was softened. "You admire it? I forgive you for frightening us." "Am I in a mad-house?" said Ghysbrecht Van Swieten thoroughly puzzled.
Thanks to these able and intelligent devices of the Press, terror now reigned in the city; frightened foreigners fled from the hotels en masse; and Paris had become a mere mad-house, where the most idiotic delusions at once found credit. It was not all this, however, that worried Guillaume.
The most offensive employments, for the want of a better, have often been resumed, to relieve the mind from the intolerable load of nothing, the heaviest of all weights, as it needs must be to an immortal spirit: for the mind cannot stop, except it be in a mad-house; there, indeed, it may rest, or rather stagnate, on one thought, its little circle, perhaps of misery.
He passed as a physician in good practice, but as the marriage was what no marriage ought to be a hasty one we did not discover, until too late, that the practice he boasted of consisted principally in the management of a mad-house.
Even as he went on, the shout, the laugh, the shriek, the sob, rose up in unison, till they changed into the hollow, fitful and uneven sound of the wind as it fought among the pine trees on those three lonely hills. The lady looked up, and there was the withered woman smiling in her face. "Couldst thou have thought there were such merry times in a mad-house?" inquired the latter.
Oh, Frank, what 'ud become of me if anything happened that boy? it's a mad-house would hould me soon. May the Lord in heaven save and guard him from all evil and clanger!" Frank saw that it was useless to remonstrate with him at such a moment, for the truth is, intoxication was setting in fast, and all his influence over him was gone.
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