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"It's too bad! too bad!" he murmured, with tears in his eyes: "she might have given me one chance to speak. She hasn't been fair to me. What's the matter with her, anyhow? She has brooded and brooded till she is downright melancholy-mad;" and then, with a revulsion of feeling, "My poor darling girl! Here she has been, sick and all alone, sitting day after day in that cursed graveyard.
"Place the girl under medical care; unless she recovers her wits when her child is born if indeed she should have a child she will end her days melancholy-mad. There is no hope of a cure but in the maternal instinct, if it can be aroused." Corentin paid each of the physicians forty francs in gold, and then turned to the Police Commissioner, who had pulled him by the sleeve.
Anne looked startled. 'He's up to the gunnel in love! We must try to help him on in it, or I fear he'll go melancholy-mad like. 'We help him? she asked faintly. 'He's lost his heart to one of the play-actresses at Budmouth, and I think she slights him. 'O, I am so glad! she exclaimed. 'Glad that his venture don't prosper? 'O no; glad he's so sensible.
'Oh, those gongs, they always fill me with despair! cried Bess. 'I am never ready when ours begins to buzz through the house, like a gigantic, melancholy-mad bumble bee. Of course I must change, dear; firstly, because I am smothered with dust, and sixthly, as Dogberry says, because I have brought a pretty gown to do honour to Wimperfield.
"I will do everything you recommend; indeed, for some weeks before you came, I had put a constraint upon myself and forced myself to be very still; but the effect of that was, that acting upon their theory they said that I was sinking into the last or 'melancholy-mad' state of mania, and they put me in here with the incurables."
"I will do everything you recommend; indeed, for some weeks before you came, I had put a constraint upon myself and forced myself to be very still; but the effect of that was, that acting upon their theory they said that I was sinking into the last or 'melancholy-mad' state of mania, and they put me in here with the incurables."
A few stars widely spaced in this picture glimmered sadly. I noticed again the infinite depth of patient sorrow in their serene faces; and I hope that the vandal who first applied the flippant "twinkle" to them may not be driven melancholy-mad by their reproachful eyes.
"Never have I been over there since one winter night some three year ago and then I lost myself finding it. How can ye live in such a one-eyed place? Great Hintock is bad enough hut Little Hintock the bats and owls would drive me melancholy-mad! It took two days to raise my sperrits to their true pitch again after that night I went there. Mr.
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