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speech , and where he stood there did he remain . He never passed the threshold of the room . He leant against the door-post , and his straining eyes beheld too plainly the fearful exhibition which was prepared to greet
his return , after long absence , to his home and to his kindred . There lay his mother and his sister , stretched out upon a carpetless floor , the little chamber which he had left so cotafortable , denuded of almost all its furniture , and no spark of fire in the grate . " And the mother and the sister , were they dead ? " $ o ^ reader , much worse—they were drunk
Filthily drunk—the old woman and her daughter , wallowing like swine , and ever and anon belching out an inarticulate blasphemy , an empty gin-bottle on the table , a broken glass on the floor , and liquor spilt over both . * # # * The old woman ' s cap had fallen off , and her loose grfcy haSir , as she lay supine on the floor , was dabbling in a pool of nqtior
White uttered no word , but turned away from the dooi and quitted the house , a hopeless maniac . The blow # as ; ttio heavy for him to bear—so sudden and so horrible ! He beheld 1 —and the thread of his reason snapt , never again to be united . He had toiled , struggled , endured , and it had all come to this
at last ! He had suffered cold , hunger , fatigue ; he had laboured night and day in solitude and penury ; he had walked in tattered garments amongst men who pointed at him , and * H fo £ this ; all that his mother and his sister might wallow ill the filthiness of intoxication , and become like the beasts , that perish !
They found him next morning in the High street ,, and he was conveyed to a mad-house in the outskirts of the towii . Thence he escaped , I know not how , and he found hitsi MF ^ up to S—— . I have spoken of what happened thete . Througfi the agency of Dr R he was removed subsequetatjy tor $
lunatic ^ asiyktm at F . The boys made a subscnbttoiifaif their quondctna usher , and as though they were anxious to atone for their past contumely , they were uniformly liberal in their donations . I think that we raised upwards Of fiftjr pb'tiftra to supply his wants in the asylum , but neither skill nor fcare could restore him ; no glimpse of light was ever destined" arailft to enter the dark places of his brain . They pronounced nifiii an incurable maniac .
When last I travelled through S- — - I inquiredtift& ' mm * and he was still alive , if that can be called lift , y fo i < $ ^^ % cannot Repeat What they told tae—it is Wd hb ^ Jbte / f $ O ;' : ] li p gmting to be written . " ' ^ Thetffcaretaahy wha can bear witness to the truth of tfra » tory . I —Alas ! poor White ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 147, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/21/
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