For the most part the young giant's
ravings were inarticulate, but now and then Virginia heard her name linked with words of reverence and worship.
For in case of unpleasant suspicions, or even knowledge gathered from the raving of Raffles, Bulstrode would have felt that he had a defence in Lydgate's mind by having conferred a momentous benefit on him.
Raffles was worse, would take hardly any food, was persistently wakeful and restlessly raving; but still not violent.
Bulstrode went away now without anxiety as to what Raffles might say in his raving, which had taken on a muttering incoherence not likely to create any dangerous belief.
Then he got drunk and when his father came
raving into town to find him, they met and fought with their fists on Main Street and were ar- rested and put into jail together.
To escape as far as possible from the mad
ravings of the fever-stricken Russian, Jane Porter had descended from the shelter to the foot of the tree--she dared not venture farther.
I lay for two months on the point of death; my ravings, as I afterwards heard, were frightful; I called myself the murderer of William, of Justine, and of Clerval.
It is true, he seldom came to see me, for although he ardently desired to relieve the sufferings of every human creature, he did not wish to be present at the agonies and miserable ravings of a murderer.
It is true that I heard the dying Indian's words; but if those words were pronounced to be the
ravings of delirium, how could I contradict the assertion from my own knowledge?
Or are they the inflammatory
ravings of incendiaries or distempered enthusiasts?
[The unhappy man whose
ravings are recorded above, was a melancholy instance of the baneful results of energies misdirected in early life, and excesses prolonged until their consequences could never be repaired.