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Maria

CHAPTER 5
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She condescended to look on the patients, and make general enquiries, two or three times a week; but the nurses knew the hour when the visit of ceremony would commence, and every thing was as it should be.
"After my dismission, I was more at a loss than ever for a subsistence, and, not to weary you with a repetition of the same unavailing attempts, unable to stand at the washing-tub, I began to consider the rich and poor as natural enemies, and became a thief from principle.

I could not now cease to reason, but I hated mankind.

I despised myself, yet I justified my conduct.

I was taken, tried, and condemned to six months' imprisonment in a house of correction.

My soul recoils with horror from the remembrance of the insults I had to endure, till, branded with shame, I was turned loose in the street, pennyless.


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