 Long before reaching the house, wild shouts, snatches of rude songs, imprecations and obscene language, fell upon the ear, proceeding from the occupant of a low building, rather remote from the principal building to which my course was directed. Found...  Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix - Page 77by Francis Tiffany - 1891 - 392 pagesFull view - About this book
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...whose lives are the saddest pictures of human suffering and degradation. I give a few illustrations ; but description fades before reality. Danvers. November....and had been returned as incurable." The mistress tcld me she understood that, " while there, she was comfortable and decent." Alas, what a change was... | |
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