You must keep quiet--you must not excite yourself." Excite myself! As if I could, for one moment, forget the respectable old capitalist whom I had first poisoned and then blown into ten thousand pieces through my folly.

I had brain fever.

It set in that night.

For two weeks I raved deliriously; for two weeks I was doing the things I ought not to have done--in imagination.

I took a young lady skating, and slipped down with her on the ice, and broke her Grecian nose.