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Updated: May 11, 2025
And then he saw Mamma as she was when younger, wearing well-worn dresses, which he remembered for such a long time that they seemed inseparable from her; he recollected her movements, the different tones of her voice, her habits, her manias, her fits of anger, the wrinkles on her face, the movements of her thin fingers, and all her well-known attitudes, which she would never have again, and clutching hold of the doctor, he began to moan and weep.
"M. de Lourtier, the woman known as the lady with the hatchet is a madwoman." "But she would be locked up!" "We don't know that she's not. We don't know that she is not one of those half-mad people, apparently harmless, who are watched so slightly that they have full scope to indulge their little manias, their wild-beast instincts. Nothing could be more treacherous than these creatures.
You came much later; and it is a proof of the great esteem in which we hold you, that when you made your offer we renounced our earlier projects." "You did, yes," said la Peyrade, "and with some literary manias which, after all, are frequently full of sense and wit you have a heart of gold; with you friendship is a sure thing, and you know what you mean.
He was lapsing into the most singular manias. While obstinately retaining possession of the over-large flat which he had formerly occupied with his wife and daughter, he now lived there absolutely alone; for he had dismissed his servant, and did his own marketing, cooking, and cleaning. For ten years nobody but himself had been inside his rooms, and the most filthy neglect was suspected there.
In proof of these statements, we refer any candid mind to the "spiritual rappers," "women's rights," "Mormonism," "gold hunting, and other manias," which, within the last few years, have sprung from the sectarian systems and their teaching, and from no other source.
"Well, the canal it shall be," responded the captain, "if all are agreed." "Agreed!" they echoed, in rather a disappointed tone, and Captain Peter led the way. "All right, come on. We can reach Haarlem in an hour!" Big Manias and Little Oddities While skating along at full speed, they heard the cars from Amsterdam coming close behind them.
But when Scribe abandoned his reed-pipes and essayed the lyre, he gave Meyerbeer this, J'ai voulu les punir ...Tu les as surpassés! And Meyerbeer made it, J'ai voulu les punir ... Et tu les as surpassés! which was hardly encouraging. Meyerbeer had other manias as well. Perhaps the most notable was to give to the voice musical schemes which belong by rights to the instruments.
He busied himself in archaeology, a passion, or to speak more correctly, one of those manias which enable old men to fancy themselves still living. The education of his ward was therefore left to chance. Little cared-for by her uncle's wife, a young woman given over to the social pleasures of the imperial epoch, Felicite brought herself up as a boy.
It seems vain to ask why. Men are born with various manias: from my earliest childhood, it was mine to make a plaything of imaginary series of events; and as soon as I was able to write, I became a good friend to the paper-makers. I have named but a few of my ill- fated efforts, only such indeed as came to a fair bulk ere they were desisted from; and even so they cover a long vista of years.
He strove earnestly, of course, to bring the flesh into subjection to the spirit; which was, calmly considered, a slight waste of time, since the said flesh showed the least possible inclination of revolt. The earlier diaries contain pathetic exaggerations of the slightest indiscretion. Innocent and virtuous persons have ever been prone to such little manias of self-accusation!
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