Is he absolutely deranged, think you?
For, I assure you, I have just now had a scene with him, in which his conduct and language could proceed from nothing short of actual insanity.

A little affected with liquor he unquestionably was, when he came in first.

The appearance, however, of Sir Thomas not only reduced him to a state of sobriety, but seemed to strike him with a degree of terror altogether inexplicable." "How was that," asked Birney.
The stranger accordingly described the scene between himself and Fenton, with which the reader is acquainted.
"He is not a madman, certainly, in the ordinary sense of the word," replied Birney, after a pause; "but, I think, he may be called a kind of lunatic, certainly.

My own opinion is, that, whatever insanity he may be occasionally afflicted with results more from an excessive indulgence in liquor than from any other cause.

Be that, however, as it may, there is no question but that he is occasionally seized with fits of mental aberration.