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Page 52
"I will send a proper person in the morning to arrange that she may be
placed with my brother," said Charles.
Mary shrieked almost with the wildness of a maniac. "No, no; as far
from him as possible! Oh! not with him! She was to blame in our days
of splendour as much as he was; but she could not see it; and I durst
not reason with her. Not with him! _She would disturb him in his
grave!_"
Her uncle shuddered, while the young girl sobbed in the bitter wailing
tone their landlady complained of.
"No," resumed Mary, "let the parish bury her; even its officers were
kind; and if you bury her, or they, it is still a pauper's funeral. I
see all these things clearly now; death, while it closes the eyes of
some, opens the eyes of others; it has opened mine."
But why should I prolong this sad story. It is not the tale of one,
but of many. There are dozens, scores, hundreds of instances of the
same kind, _arising from the same cause_, in our broad islands. In
the lunatic asylum, where that poor girl, even Mary Adams, has found
refuge during the past two years, there are many cases of insanity
arising from change of circumstances, where a fifty pounds' insurance
would have set such maddening distress at defiance. I know that
her brother died in the hospital within a few days; and the pale,
sunken-eyed girl, whose damp yellow hair and thin white hand are so
eagerly kissed by the gentle maniac when she visits her, month by
month, is the youngest, and, I believe, the _last_ of her family, at
least the last in England. Oh, that those who foolishly boast that
their actions only affect themselves, would look carefully abroad,
and if they doubt what I have faithfully told, examine into the causes
which crowd the world with cases even worse than I have here recorded!
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