She besought him to allow her to send to her mother, who resided a few miles in the country, who would hasten to her succour, and relieve him and his family from the danger and trouble of nursing her.
"The man was lunatic with apprehension.

He rejected her entreaties, though urged in a manner that would have subdued a heart of flint.

The girl was innocent, and amiable, and courageous, but entertained an unconquerable dread of the hospital.

Finding entreaties ineffectual, she exerted all her strength in opposition to the man who lifted her into the cart.
"Finding that her struggles availed nothing, she resigned herself to despair.

In going to the hospital, she believed herself led to certain death, and to the sufferance of every evil which the known inhumanity of its attendants could inflict.