I knew it must be so: that so it always had been, and so it ever would be: and when I cowered in some obscure corner of a crowded room, and saw men whisper, and point, and turn their eyes towards me, I knew they were telling each other of the doomed madman; and I slunk away again to mope in solitude.
I was too cunning for them, madman as they thought me.
"Ah, poor old Madman, he's always losing his books," said Tom, "and getting called up and floored because he hasn't got them."
As we got into the New Row, which was hardly wide enough to hold the Doctor and his gown, click, click, click, we heard in the old Madman's den.
The evening of the day on which I had taken my
madman's resolution to depart in anger from all that was dear to me found me in that congenial spot.
With a
madman's cunning, Makar Alexeevich eyed the Frenchman, raised his pistol, and took aim.
The whole of that week he experienced a sensation such as a man might have set in charge of a dangerous
madman, afraid of the
madman, and at the same time, from being with him, fearing for his own reason.
for if your worship had let that pass -and you were not a judge in the matter- it is my belief the
madman would have gone on with his story, and the blow of the stone, and the kicks, and more than half a dozen cuffs would have been escaped."
Two hours afterwards he could not be recognized as a king, a gentleman, a man, a human being; he might rather be called a
madman, tearing the door with his nails, trying to tear up the flooring of his cell, and uttering such wild and fearful cries that the old Bastile seemed to tremble to its very foundations for having revolted against its master.
My soul is more than matched; she's overmanned; and by a
madman! Insufferable sting, that sanity should ground arms on such a field!
What would his guards think if they heard him shout like a
madman?
When I see you merely, you look like a reasonable being; when you speak, I seem to have to do with a
madman. Come, Porthos, join me; say frankly, what do you think of this business?"