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Updated: June 16, 2025
Fie, for shame, old Lazarus, d n me, if I had you back again, but we'd teach you sympathy for Dives; and how so, my friend of the hawthorn why, we'd send him to the poor-house,* or if that wouldn't do, to the mad-house to the mad-house. Oh, my God my God! what is this? Where are you bringing me, sir? but I know I feel it this destiny that's over me!"
He trembled with agitation, and looked over the side railing into the river, that he might not see him till he was past. The caliph, who wished to renew the diversion he had received, had taken care to inform himself of all that had happened to Abou Hassan, and enjoyed much pleasure at the relation given him, especially at his being sent to a mad-house.
A Frenchman has charge, and upon his vision there suddenly bursts a dusty figure, with hair destitute of covering, and clothing awry, a figure that has leaped from a horse bathed in sweat; a figure he imagines has broken loose from some mad-house, yet which upon addressing him shows a wonderful amount of coolness. "Are you the agent of the stage line?" is the first question fired at him.
But I think this book may well start where our argument started in the neighbourhood of the mad-house. Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin a fact as practical as potatoes.
The examples of abnormal passion are two that of the amorous homicide who would set on one perfect moment the seal of eternity, in Porphyria's Lover, and that of the other occupier of the mad-house cells, Johannes Agricola, whose passion of religion is pushed to the extreme of a mystical antinomianism.
But never mind her: I want to talk with you of her husband. I know that he was confined in a mad-house; but, having occasion to see if he was sane enough to do me a service, I found out that he had been discharged as cured, and had retired within himself. Now, good Carlotta, tell me his veritable condition." "He never has been sane since the flight of the marchioness.
Well, go, say it outside this chamber, and hear your very slaves cry 'Shame' upon you. Go, say it to your king and your bishops, aye, and to his Holiness the Pope himself, and listen to their answer. Why, great as you are, and rich as you are, they will hale you to a mad-house or a prison."
I resolutely cut out music as impossible, settled down in my bedroom, and tackled my second, third, and fourth choices simultaneously. Heavens, how I wrote! Never was there a creative fever such as mine from which the patient escaped fatal results. The way I worked was enough to soften my brain and send me to a mad-house.
It required a deliberate and conscious effort to keep my brain quite cool. I have not the reputation of being of an excitable temperament, but the contrary; yet I could at that moment see my way to a condition in which one might become insane in an instant. It was as if a fissure opened somewhere, and I saw my way into a mad-house; then it closed, and everything went on as before.
And there's a buck with his bearing-rein so tight that he can hardly move his neck," pointing to a gentleman in scarlet, with a tremendous stiff blue cravat "he lives by keeping a mad-house and being werry high, consequential sort of a cock, they calls him the 'Lord High Keeper! I'll tell ye a joke about that fellow," said he, pointing to a man alighting from a red-wheeled buggy "he's a werry shabby screw, and is always trying to save a penny.
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