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The orphans in a nunnery; the dethroned prince a poor castaway in a foreign land; the noble young lady in a madhouse; the missionary priest under the thumb of his superiors. As for the man of the middle class, and the working man, who concluded the list of this family, we are to read of them, as well as of the others, in the pages which now succeed these. A carnival night was dying out.
And now, in the evening delivered over by an atrocious piece of treachery to the ignoble hands of two coarse-minded muses in a madhouse Mdlle. de Cardoville felt her delicate limbs imprisoned in that abominable garment, which is called a strait-waistcoat. Mdlle. de Cardoville passed a horrible night in company with the two hags.
The story may be believed, when the hero of it was well known to be fully qualified for one of the deepest dungeons of a madhouse. I hope, for the sake of society, and the repose of the world, that the rest of Madame R 's admirers have not united to their passion the bewildered imagination, which fatally distinguished, and finally closed the career of her imperial lover. Mr.
The plague broke forth in Amsterdam. When arrested, they obstinately refused to put on clothing. "We are," they observed, "the naked truth." In a day or two, these furious lunatics, who certainly deserved a madhouse rather than the scaffold, were all executed. The numbers of the sect increased with the martyrdom to which they were exposed, and the disorder spread to every part of the Netherlands.
At another time, or in another case, it might have excited my ridicule. But into what quackeries will not people rush for a last chance, where all accustomed means have failed, and the life of a beloved object is at stake? "Nothing, you will say, could be more absurd than the learned man's letter. "It was monstrous enough to have consigned him to a madhouse.
All the ships are to be on the line, checked and inspected an hour before dawn. The C.O. said to make it snappy. He said a truck would come after your luggage. It's a madhouse over at headquarters, sir." Both pilots sprang from the bed. "Do you know where my orderly sleeps, Rawlins?" McGee asked. "Yes, sir." "Go bounce him out and send him up here, tout suite!
Mozart always sang them, and how blithely! No one, not Beethoven, not Raphael, not Goethe to name three widely disparate men of genius saw life as steadily as the Spaniard. He is a magnificent refutation of the madhouse doctors who swear to you that genius is a disease. Remember, too, that the limitations of Velasquez are clearly defined.
And so I am left to my wild fears, that grow stronger every day. Oh, father, help me, if you can. I must have certainty, or I shall lose my reason." "If you don't give up this wild fancy, you surely will," answered Mr. Dinneford, in a distressed voice. "If I were to shut myself up and do nothing," said Edith, with greater calmness, "I would be in a madhouse before a week went by.
Maupertius had just published his "Lettres Philosophiques," in which it must be confessed there were passages which justified Voltaire's assertion that Maupertius was at one time insane, and was confined for some years in a madhouse at Montpellier. Maupertius proposed in these letters that a Latin city should be built, and this majestic and beautiful tongue brought to life again.
"No," said John, but something that he had heard at the board meeting at the hospital returned at that moment with a stunning force to his memory. "His father, poor man, was one of my own people one of the lay associates of our society in the world outside. But his health gave way, his business failed him, and he died in a madhouse, leaving his three children to the care of a friend.
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