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That was the very tar of shame. Peter knew that in the moral categories of Niggertown Cissie would suffer more from such a rebuff than if she had lied or committed theft and adultery every day in the calendar. She had been refused marriage. All the folk-ways of Niggertown were utterly topsyturvy. It was a crazy-house filled with the most grotesque moral measures.
Where from?" "Run away from home now didn't you?" "Mercy, no! What put such an idea as that in your head?" I asked, laughing. "Fanny Harley did." "Who's Fanny Harley?" "She's the girl they took to the crazy-house." "But," I argued, "is that any reason for you to suppose that I ran away from home too?" "Yep, it is. You're ever so much like Fanny Harley.
When they was rescued from the Posy Lass, her decks awash and her slowly breakin' up, there warn't nothing could be done for the feller that had lost his mind. He was put straightaway into a crazy-house when they got to port. "Now, them fellers saved from the Gilbert Gaunt didn't go through nothin' like that, it stands to reason. Cap'n Am'zon "
A look of dismay came upon her. Her mouth dropped open. "Oh, no, Doctor!" She began to shake her head. "I'll never do tha-at; oh, no; I'll never send my poor hussband to the crazy-house! Oh, no, sir; I'll do not such a thing!" There was some resentment in her emotion. Her nether lip went up like a crying babe's, and she breathed through her nostrils audibly.
They took her away to the lock-up in the hurry-up wagon, and the next day they said she was crazy, clean crazy, and she's in the crazy-house over on the Island now." "What island?" I asked, not with any desire to know this minor detail, but because I was too disturbed for the moment to make any other comment.
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