They were deaf to my entreaties, and prepared to execute their office by force.

I was delirious with rage and terror.
I heaped the bitterest execrations on my murderer; and by turns, invoked the compassion of, and poured a torrent of reproaches on, the wretches whom he had selected for his ministers.

My struggles and outcries were vain.
"I have no perfect recollection of what passed till my arrival at the hospital.

My passions combined with my disease to make me frantic and wild.

In a state like mine, the slightest motion could not be endured without agony.