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cumstances, where a fifty pounds’ insurance
would have set such maddening distress at defi-
ance. I know that her brother died in the hos-
pital 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 fami-
ly, 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 !