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But you know she is very quick-witted . ' There was a change for the worse in Towler 's charge next morning , when Ida , who still occupied the room adjoining her husband 's bedchamber , went in at eight o'clock to inquire how he had passed the night . Brian was up , half dressed , pacing up and down the room , and talking incoherently . He had been up ever since five o'clock , Towler said ; but it was impossible to get him to dress himself , or suffer himself to be dressed . A frightful restlessness had taken possession of him , more intense than any previous restlessness , and it was impossible to do anything for him . His hallucinations since daybreak had taken a frightful form ; he had seen poisonous snakes gliding in and out of the folds of the bedclothes ; he had fancied every kind of hideous monster -- the winged reptiles of the jura formation -- the armour-plated fish of the old red sandstone -- everything that is grotesque , revolting , terrible -- skeletons , poison-spitting toads , vampires , were-wolves , flying cats -- they had all lurked amidst the draperies of bed or windows , or grinned at him through the panes of glass . ` Look ! '