These were not the ravings of imbecility, the sickly effusions of distempered brains; but the exuberance of fancy, that " in a fine phrenzy" wandering, was not continually reminded of its material shackles.
Monsieur de Cleves could set no bounds to his affliction; he felt ill of a fever that very night, and his distemper was accompanied with such ill symptoms that it was thought very dangerous.
I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into-some fearful, devastating scourge, I know-and, before I had glanced half down the list of " premonitory symptoms" , it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.