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Fenris too knew the moon-madness; but unlike Ben he had a means of expression of the wonder and mystery and vague longing that thrilled his wild heart. No man who has heard the pack song to the moon could doubt this fact. It is a long, melancholy wail, poignant with the pain of living, but it tells what man can not. Ben knew, now, why he was a forester, a woodsman famed even among woodsmen.
Perhaps, in time well, he was done now with moon-madness, and he stepped briskly down the avenue, firm set in purpose to risk everything for his wife's sake, and let the future rest in the lap of the gods. This, be it noted, was his first stroll in New York.
How do I know that your Greek was not an addle-headed ass like yourself? Corpo di Dio! His treasure of Saba may be a piece of moon-madness akin to this tragi-comic plot of yours." "I would have bent her to my will. I could make her go to this Austrian dog and tell him begone. I could force her to confess to the Englishman that she had deceived him." "Saetta!
When Jerry's guests were with him, the duties of hospitality seemed sacred to him and he left nothing undone for their comfort or entertainment. At night Una sang to us, and Jerry was himself, but during most of the day he moved mechanically, only speaking to Jack or me when directly addressed. "Acts like a sleepwalker," said Jack to me. "It's hypnotic, sheer moon-madness!"
It had come stealing down from the thick woods to visit the farmyard, driven, perhaps, by the same moon-madness that stirred the porcupine. But at the edge of the silent farmyard, white and tranquil under the flooding radiance, the man-smell on the bars had brought the bob-cat to a sudden halt. No moon-madness could make the cautious cat forget the menace of that smell.
But he knew not that his vision was obscured and that the moon-madness was upon him. By daylight next morning every man and most of the women among the new arrivals had disappeared into the hills the women in spite of the by-laws of Lee's Creek, which discriminated against their sex.
The touch of their lips had waked that delight which comes but once in a lifetime and then to but few; it was like the moon-madness of the tropics or the dementia of the forest folk in spring. A gentle frenzy possessed them, rendering them insensible to fatigue and causing them to hurry the more breathlessly that they might sooner rest and sit beside each other.
And I must say that not one who waited but has said to me, "I am glad I waited"; whilst many who did not wait have bitterly regretted. A love affair is emotional insanity. Lovers are insane; not in fit condition to decide their own actions. The state of "falling in love" is moon-madness.
Moon-madness was upon us, and we were carried away by the mystery of the night. Such madness is not uncommon. Of tales in the fore-castle during a long voyage there is no end.
It was a wonderful night; the moonlight drenched the valley, and there was the smell of camp-fires and horses over everything just the sort of a night for a guitar, just the sort of a night to make your blood run hot and to draw you out into the glitter and make you race with your shadow. When Mike moseyed in, along about ten o'clock, he was plumb loco; the moon-madness was on him strong.
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