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YET T H ER E' S METHOD IN IT. " 245
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M . Trelat then remarks , that many of the class he wishes to indicate " resemble rational people ; are attractively formed ; are
charming in society , where they love to shine ; gifted with selfwounding government 1 pride , they and reserve in some their cases caprices their , fury their for exactions their families , their . "
, Sometimes it is the woman who tortures her husband by the most frightful language , while his friends congratulate him on her
amiability ; sometimes it is the reverse . One of the examples given farther on in the book , relates how a wife and mother kept
the secret of her husband ' s nightly violence from all the world until the wretched man terminated his existence hy suicide . In the daytime he was reasonableand no one suspected his true
con-, ¦ c dition ause . , which In another she herself case , a perhaps husband hardl who y thus attributed broke out to into its true the
wildest excesses was undiscovered for ten years , until one day when some friends were dining with him in the country . Suddenlthe
y pulle maniac d , out whose his wife fits ' s had comb been , unrolled religiousl her y hair _kej _^ t twisted secret , jumped it round up his ,
arm , and dragged his victim On the gravel of , the terrace where he and his guests had been sitting . They surrounded hershuddering
to with the alarm friends ; but , " she You it knew was who nothing quieted of this the , unhappy though it , man has , say lasted ing
for ten years . You pity me , and with reason ; but pity me much more for what has happened to-day , than for what occurred in the
past ; for my greatest grief is , that you have become aware of what I was so thankful to be able to hide from you . This scene has
been regularly repeated two or three times every week . " This p man laced died ; yet in for a madhouse all these , where years he he had was lived eventuall in y the obli world ged to con be
ducting his affairs , and shielded by the heroic patience of his wife , . rationalit Pinel si y _^ ; eaks yet of who patients will tear who their speak clothes , write , and and their read bedding with perfect and
, then suggest a very plausible reason for what they have done . Esquirol mentions a lady who carried her abuse of her husband
to the point of insanity ; and spread evil reports of her friends and acquaintanceas if " le demon du mal" had inspired her words and
, actions ; but if she went into society , had the adroitness to hide her propensity perfectly . And also another , who said her husband
understood nothing of business , and was ruining the family , while her own perversity at length necessitated her being placed under care when
she treated the other patients , doctors , and servants with the utmost ; disdain , wrote letters to the Prefet de Police , to the magistratesand
lawyers , which deceived them all , never losing her self-possession , before strangersoverwhelming with sarcasm those whom she
, veritabl thought y weak crazy , , y and ielding yet as sane soon enoug as h she to was be a energeticall mischief-maker y _opj > and osed a ;
pest in every house where she was placed .
Guislain mentions other _j : > ati © nts who are capable of arguing
Yet T H Er E' S Method In It. " 245
YET T H ER E ' S METHOD IN IT . " 245
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/29/
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