Strong-minded women, you will hear them called; in truth, they are the weakest of their sex.

Let their energies be submitted to any unusual strain, let their nerves (they are always morbid) be overwrought, and they snap!" He illustrated the catastrophe with his hands.

"Unaided by religion, the female nature is irresponsible, unaccountable." Mr.Vialls had been severe of late in his judgment of women.

"Mrs.Quarrier, poor creature, was the victim of immoderate zeal for worldly ends.

She was abetted by her husband and by Mrs.Wade; they excited her to the point of frenzy, and in the last moment she--snapped! Mrs.Wade's hysterical display is but another illustration of the same thing.