I cannot adequately relate my astonishment at this uncommon inscription! The meagre but suffi- cient identification of the deceased; the impudent candour of confession; the brutal anathema; the ludicrous change of sex and sentiment--all marked this record as the work of one who must have been at least as much demented as bereaved. I felt that any further disclosure would be a paltry anti-climax, and with an unconscious regard for dramatic effect turned squarely about and walked away. Nor did I return to that part of the county for four years.英文原著 · 《Can Such Things Be》
"What!" ejaculated the Dariuses. "It is not true! She is mad! Take her avay, please!" shouted the Baron, now desperate in his resolution to say or do anything, so long as he got rid of his formidable relative. The Countess staggered back. "Is he demented?" she inquired. "Say, ma'am," put in Ri, "are you the mother of Miss Constance Herringay?"
"Of----? I am Lady Grillyer!"
"See here, my good lady, that's going a little too far," said the millionaire not unkindly.英文原著 · 《Count Bunker》
"I think it will do now, Sybil," said she, surveying the scene. "It must," replied Sybil. "You haven't a plate or a fan or coloured scarf left. You must send out and buy some of these old negro-women's bandannas if you are going to cover anything else. What is the use? Do you suppose any human being in Washington will like it? They will think you demented."
"There is such a thing as self-respect," replied her sister, calmly. Sybil--Miss Sybil Ross--was Madeleine Lee's sister.英文原著 · 《Democracy An American Novel》