She had four children, who were given up almost wholly to the care of hirelings.

There was, consequent upon neglect, ignorance, and bad regimen, a great deal of sickness among them, and I was frequently called in to interpose my skill for their relief.

Poor little suffering ones! how often I pitied them An occasional warning was thrown in, but it was scarcely heeded by the mother, who had put on towards me a reserved stateliness, that precluded all friendly remonstrance.
At least two months of every summer Mrs.Dewey was absent from S----, intermitting between Saratoga and Newport, where she abandoned herself to all the excitements of fashionable dissipation.

Regularly each year we saw her name in the New York correspondence of the Herald, as the "fascinating Mrs.D----;" the "charming wife of Mr.D----;" or in some like style of reference.

At last, coupled with one of these allusions, was an intimation that "it might be well if some discreet friend would whisper in the lady's ear that she was a little too intimate with men of doubtful reputation; particularly in the absence of her husband." This paragraph was pointed out to me by one of my patients.