I know for certain that the obstinate hostility of his colleagues had determined him on trying the effect of patience and kindness in the treatment of mad people, at his sole risk and expense.

There is now in Bethlehem Hospital a wretched man--a friendless outcast, found in the streets--whom my noble husband had chosen as the first subject of his humane experiment, and whose release from a life of torment he had the hope of effecting through the influence of a person in authority in the Royal Household.

You know already that the memory of my husband's plans and wishes is a sacred memory to me.

I am resolved to see that poor chained creature whom he would have rescued if he had lived; and I will certainly complete his work of mercy, if my conscience tells me that a woman should do it." Hearing this bold announcement--I am almost ashamed to confess it, in these enlightened days--we all three protested.

Modest Mr.Hartrey was almost as loud and as eloquent as the lawyer, and I was not far behind Mr.Hartrey.It is perhaps to be pleaded as an excuse for us that some of the highest authorities, in the early part of the present century, would have been just as prejudiced and just as ignorant as we were.