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"Well, I shan't call you in to reduce the dislocation that's the medical term, isn't it?" persisted Kitty, with fire in her eyes. "What is the dislocation?" asked Mona, with a subtle, inquiring look but a manner which conveyed interest. The Young Doctor smiled. "It's only her way of saying that my mind is unhinged and that I ought to be sent to a private hospital for two."
It seems that after you were thrown overboard and supposed to be drowned, your poor father went went that is to say, his mind was unhinged, owing, no doubt, to the combined effect of your supposed murder and the two terrible blows by which he was felled during the mutiny." "My father mad!" exclaimed Orlando, in a low, horrified tone, clasping his hands, and gazing into Captain Fitzgerald's face.
She was heartbroken, or professed to be, since no more selfish woman existed in New York. "Are you coming to see me?" she wailed. "Yes, yes, later in the day. At present I dare not. I am too unhinged. Oh, Helen, what a tragedy! Have you any news?" "News! My God! What news can I hope for except that Ronald's poor, maimed body has been found?" "Helen, this is terrible. Bear up!" "I'm doing my best.
The terrible truth that her husband had died, and been buried at sea, had been gently and tenderly broken to her by Miss Robinson. At first the poor girl could not would not believe it. Then, as the truth gradually forced itself into her brain, she subsided into a tearless, expressionless, state of quiescence that seemed to indicate a mind unhinged.
Query: If the biscuit should be boiled in the milk, or milk merely poured over the biscuit " Here he glanced up, and seeing the anguish on the hunchback's face, handed back the book. "I beg your pardon, Jack. But get your hat and come along." "You forget, Jemmy. We gave our word, you know." Captain Runacles stared. "Trouble has unhinged your wits, my friend.
I had not yet however told him, I said, what was perhaps the saddest point in the whole sad story namely, that the attack had been brought on by the news of the actual murder of a lady to whom he had been passionately attached; the horror of it had unhinged his reason, then turned and fastened upon his imagination; so that he was now convinced beyond the reach of argument or even the clearest proof, that it was his own hand that drove the knife to her heart.
The mind of the cultured Philistine must have become sadly unhinged; for precisely what culture repudiates he regards as culture itself; and, since he proceeds logically, he succeeds in creating a connected group of these repudiations a system of non-culture, to which one might at a pinch grant a certain "unity of style," provided of course it were Ot nonsense to attribute style to barbarity.
The man started, muttered odd, fragmentary scraps of sentences, now grumbling, now whining. 'His mind is unhinged, Racksole whispered in English. 'Hush! said Prince Aribert. 'He understands English. But Prince Eugen took no notice of the brief colloquy. 'We had better get him upstairs, somehow, said Racksole. 'Yes, Aribert assented.
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity and airy subtleties in religion which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they have never stretched the membranes of mine. Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith; I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo!
While I was breakfasting, however, this incident came fully back to me. Either Rhona's chatter about Sinfi's reason for wanting to see me was the nonsense that had floated into Rhona's own brain, the brain of a love-sick girl to whom everything spelt marriage or else poor Sinfi's mind had become unhinged.
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