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290 " THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS ,
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suspected the mother . of For daug Instance hters , and we read much of in the French wife of society a scientific . This man lady , - _,
drank toilet Eau and de Cologne that of , her and , friends presently For took this to purpose making perfume ostensibl for y , her she *
own . , laid between in larg what e stores she of spirits in of small wine ; flasks but there and what was no she proportion consumed gave away
In bottlesto the extent of a bottle a day . At last she began to fall I changed _asleep in , , her the intellect midst _from weakened of conversation the current , and this of ; graduall life charming at fort y her and -four fashionable appearance and died disappeared y ,
woman and says suffering at fifty youn M , . with Trelat g and peop all , find " le the are out marry far marks their from unsuspecting horrible of infrequent advanced mistake ly these age among too . victim " late men And 1 s and " such of w sin cases 6 men and , " ;
curious Under cases , the singular of lucid head insanit of y wasters . ital What of and £ shall 1 speculators 200 we drives say of are about a Bel several g in ian a gentleman whopossessing a
penny carriage remaining with four , ? horses Again until , Madame cap he and M his , famil , a handsome y , have sb not , d livel ten a y half lady
-* her of twent senior y-five , has years a taste old for , married extravagance to an affectionat , and the wears str e et hu slippers an husb of year p and ink s
and blue satin , in which she appears in e . Her his has return to leave he home finds to his procure wife confined money for to her a pressing bedspeechless emergency from ; on
weakness , but able to hand him a letter containing , the sum total of her debts , Then follow reproacheshystericsand repentance on
the part of . the husband . She drives , him at , last into dishonest paths , and he loses his situation . After * which contraband she opens an
_£ In absurdl fty Eau , after y de exp suffering Cologn ensive e school , from and cerebral finall and fail y takes s congestion , sets to up gambling a ; and her .. famil She commerce y dies settle at
down into a quiet regular life . A somewhat similar example is given of a lady who took to buy it ing up at everything which the price was
After offered sense a her long of for course the sale word , of and ruinous and selling she foll died y again her of general intellect a par quarter failed alysis in ; the _biit ordi not - .
b nary efore she had driven , her husband into debt to the extent of £ 6000 . who
was The in the next habit examp of le visiting is a gentleman his wife at ; an the officer Salpe' , triere aged . fifty who He years had , been
fallen a brilliant in love , handsome at Bordeaux , soldierl with y a , and wealthy of man lower , rank , having than his ownmarried her . His fortune young large person for France , amounted
to marriage cessful £ 24 , 000 and , , he ; he of invested took wMch to , a gambling when third he in retired on a speculation the , Stock from . Exchange the It army proved - upon to unsuc repai his r -
remain his loss , s . of He his onl money y becam disappeared e more un in fortun an ill ate -considered , and finall scheme y the last of
290 " Though This Be Madness ,
290 " THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/2/
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