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    YET THERE ' S METHOD IN IT." 249

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    State would put an end to the industrial and commercial crisis , if it would itself take the helmof this important _governmental

    machineand would direct it as it does , those of Justiceof Warof the Marine , , and of Finance ; " thus reproducing the very , idea deba , ted

    upon at the Luxembourg' in 1848 . worse In spite In of June medical 1854 treatment she writes , th to is the poor Prefet lady b de ecame Police worse makin and g

    grave . revelations , concerning , public safety , the personal securit , y of the Emerorand lots hatched at the Salpetrierein connexion

    with somnambulists p , p and magnetizers . These evil-minded , persons , according to herfalse keyspick locksforge and intercept

    letters . Alluding , possess to a notification , of her own , death , which she affirms to have been inserted in a provincial paper , she deprecates

    the idea that her own family , her brother , his wife and his childrencould be accomlices in such a plot . Hather would she think

    them , also victims of p deception , tortured in a thousand ways without knowing whom to accuse . But never , for her part , will she

    cease to'denounce these vile machinations , never until she ceases to live M . . Trelat " Je _ferai selects mon this devoir case , adv as ienne a specim ce que en pourra which , . " was particularly

    difficult to detect in i ts earlier stages ; although it later became The w perfe hole patient ctl b y ehavior defined ' s langua so and irr ge e charac was roacha at teristic b fi rst that so of cl he ear one imag , so form reasonab ined of sh monomania e le , and t have her .

    been sent to him from a p feeling of , indulgence , and a wish to spare her an in a criminal court . She had known so much

    _J _3 overty appearance and suffering- ! When she obtained her bureau as _jDostmistress she was already in difficulties , and all her efforts and all

    her patience could not suffice to clear her path . Her gleam of good fortune had come over lateand perhapshe thoughtthe authorities

    had allowed themselves to , be softened by , these touching , considerations . But lie was soon undeceived . It was a lunatic who

    was submitted to his investigation . In spite of her difficulties , her accounts were irreproachable until her reason was shaken , * and lie

    afterwards heard that she had been subject to hallucinations even before she was sent to the Salpetriere , imagining that her sleep was

    broken by violent noises . This woman ' s intellect had assuredly been rich and vigorous . It was a pity she had had to struggle so

    sharply with the difficulties of life . M . Trelat observes that he never saw her until the spring of her mind was brokenbut even

    tlien it showed the original power which a wider and unemb , arrassed career miht have developed and preserved . She was sent away

    from the Sal g _petriere to a provincial asylum , where lie lost sight of this interesting patientfor whom lie feared general paralysis as

    , her final doom . Another highly interesting patient had been a governess , speaking

    English as perfectly as her native tongue , and thoroughly intelligent by nature and education . She came of a Protestant family , and

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    Yet There ' S Method In It." 249

    YET THERE ' S METHOD IN IT . " 249

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/33/