"Good God, Beaumaroy, are you keeping a lunatic in this house?"

We have no adequate data by which to judge whether the proportion of lunatics among slaves is greater or less than among the whites; some considerations favor the supposition that it is less.

"Two lunatics from Bedlam," whispered the angry Holloway.

It's a pity his brains wasn't preserved in a glass case, where the imbecile lunatics at Washington could take a whiff occasionally.

"You've disabled this poor fellow of yours, and made himon that pointa lunatic for life; and now you want to disable me.

none of your near relatives have ever suffered in the way I ... er ... have described?" "There isn't a lunatic on the list, sir," said Psmith cheerfully.

The clock he needed as the instrument of his vengeance; therefore he would not have sold it at any price to the sheep-eyed old lunatic of the pushcart, who now, on the eve of his eviction, stood gazing in with wistful contemplation.

Two days ago I was a healthy youngster, with all life before me; now I am a furious old man, unkempt, and desperate, and miserable, prowling about a great, luxurious, strange house, watched, feared, and avoided as a lunatic by everyone about me.

Yes, I am naturally full of hope, and will try and believe this; but, honestly, what hope can you have of inspiring confidence in those who are not prejudiced as I am in favour of innovators, when they see you arrest each other in this fashion, and know that you have among you such generals as Bergeret, such honest citizens as Assy, and such escaped lunatics as Lullier? FOOTNOTES:

There was a fellow who came out with me, quite a good chap really, and a tremendous pal of mine at Eton, yet he behaved like a lunatic about this very thing.

"Argo is a lunatic without me," he would observe, blandly, to Pipa, if roused by a special outburst of barking, the smoke of his pipe curling round his bullet-head the while.

Since then their good they will not understand, 'Tis time to take the monarch's power in hand; Authority and force to join with skill, And save the lunatics against their will.

And it soothes the mind of the lunatic during the lucid intervals of the aberration of his intellects, and tends more than anything else to restore him to reason.

This Beethoven (in case you don't know it), was an Italian or an Englishman, I'm not sure whichone of those fellows who makes music up out of his head for people to play in theatres or for lunatics like Moreno to amuse themselves with.

Would you like to see the greatest lunatic out of Bedlam?

he's a greater lunatic than ever."

The following is the original, epistle of this famous lunatic to the matron of Bedlam; No other proof is necessary of her insanity: Madam,I've recollected perhaps 'tis necessary to acquaint you upon what account I continue here yet, maim, after making you privy to my great concerns, madam I only wait for alteration of the globe which belongs to this house, maim and if the time is almost expired I wish to know it maim.

"About half an hour before I left, a lunatic with perspiration streaming down his face, and no hat, threw himself into my room.

Digges, Gilbert, Keplerus, Origanus, and others, defend this hypothesis of his in sober sadness, and that the moon is inhabited: if it be so that the earth is a moon, then are we also giddy, vertiginous and lunatic within this sublunary maze.