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I feel completely unhinged by the news, the boy has been such a favorite of mine ever since I came here; he has fought hard against his faults, and had the makings of a very fine character in him. God grant that he may be able to clear himself of this terrible accusation!" Ned's first examination was held on the morning after he had given himself up, before Mr. Simmonds and Mr. Thompson.
He was unhinged.... The money had always arrived punctually ... but the whole world seemed to be in conspiracy against him to-night, and his luck along with it. Mr. Rogers, who had a trick of sorting out his suits between his fingers, hesitated for a few moments, put his cards together, and with an air of fierce determination, led a small heart.
He wished Cyril to see Daniel; he said gravely that he thought Cyril ought to see him. The proposal was monstrous, inexplicable or explicable only by the assumption that his mind, while not unhinged, had temporarily lost its balance. Constance opposed an absolute negative, and Samuel being in every way enfeebled, she overcame. As for Cyril, he was divided between fear and curiosity.
"This! my Lord," said Hippolita; "this is Theodore, the youth who has been so unfortunate." "Theodore!" said Manfred mournfully, and striking his forehead; "Theodore or a phantom, he has unhinged the soul of Manfred. But how comes he here? and how comes he in armour?" "I believe he went in search of Isabella," said Hippolita.
He was so frightened that I thought it best to let him go. He ran on into the tunnel " "We must find him," she said. "He will come back, Jacqueline." "He will never come back!" she answered. "He must have been planning this and waiting for me to sleep. For years he brooded over his danger, suspecting everybody, and the shock of last night unhinged his mind. He may be hiding somewhere.
I doubted everything; it seemed to me that the centre of the world was unhinged when I found truth quit the heart of the King. I saw our whole edifice crumble to the ground; another hour, and the conspiracy would vanish away, and I should lose you forever. One means remained; I employed it." "What means?" said Marie. "The treaty with Spain was in my hand; I signed it." "Ah, heavens! destroy it."
I believe that his mind in those early days did not belie his face and body, though in later years it became unhinged, for he kept a proud head amid great poverty. One that boxed with him nightly has told me that for many weeks he could knock him down, though Macgregor was the stronger man, and only knew long after that during those weeks Macgregor starved.
"He is safe," answered Edgar; "I found him exhausted in the hut which he told me you had occupied, and had him conveyed on board the gun-boat." "Thank God!" exclaimed Aileen, fervently, "but," she added, with a slight shudder, "it seemed to me as if his mind had been unhinged and and he was wounded."
The worst is my coming back." There followed a period of dead silence, during which they exchanged searching glances. He said authoritatively "You don't know what you are saying. Your mind is unhinged. You are beside yourself, or you would not say such things. You can't control yourself.
He stood up, and looked where she pointed, but saw nothing, and seated himself to look at her. "See!" she exclaimed gleefully. "They have hauled out the spanker and are sheeting home the royal. I will never be married! I will never be married! He knew I was with you." Again he stood up and searched the sea to leeward. There was nothing in sight. "Unhinged," he thought, "by this night's trouble.
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