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A gesture of fierce impatience and disgust was the only reply deigned by the lady. "Come away; she is angry and may become dangerously excited," said the old doctor, leading the way from the cell. "Did you tell me this lady is one of the incurables?" inquired Traverse, when they had left her apartment. "Bah! yes, poor girl, vera incurable, as my sister would say."
During the last years of his life a brain disease, of which he had shown frequent symptoms, fastened its terrible hold upon Swift, and he became by turns an idiot and a madman. He died in 1745, and when his will was opened it was found that he had left all his property to found St. Patrick's Asylum for lunatics and incurables.
Besides the hospitals for the sick, there is also a hospital for poor convalescents at Sta Trinita dei Pellegrini, a lunatic asylum containing about four hundred patients, one for incurables at San Giacomo, a lying-in hospital at San Rocco, and a hospital of education and industry at San Michele.
It seemed that he used to get drunk sometimes, but without pleasure, and only because he was unable to forget his fugitive wife. After he had a paralytic stroke, falling over with a crash in the well of a music-hall orchestra during the performance, she had joined the Zangiacomo company. He was now in a home for incurables.
There were singularly few people in sight only a chronic golfer here and there up on the links and these incurables merely stared through the rain-drops at him as he forced his way among the thickets below them.
You are the daughter...let me see...there were two or three young ladies....I remember when they came out in the eighties...and a boy or two...." "I am sorry to be rude, but Alexander Groome was my father. I came along rather late." "Impossible!...Well, I suppose you know best..." and he drifted off. "This seems to be a home for incurables," said Aileen.
And at another time he asked whether if a feller advertised for some of these incurables a feller could get enough of them to make a showing. I know for a fact that he got Nivens, the lawyer, to draw up a document that was to give an acre of banana land in Cuba to every idiot in Missinaba county. But still, what's the use of talking of what Jeff meant to do? Nobody knows or cares about it now.
Such were the principal edifices instituted in Paris, during the reign of Louis XIII, either as Convents, Monasteries, or Nunneries, with churches attached to them; I have cited the most conspicuous of those of which any vestiges remain, indicating their different localities, besides a number of hospitals, most of which I have stated; that of the Incurables certainly merits attention, it was founded in 1632 in the Rue de Sèvres, and is now a refuge for those women of whom no hopes can be cherished of ultimate recovery.
"Twenty-six poor souls, but three of them seamen. Ragged and half dead." "Landsmen, boys, incurables and cripples. Sad wretches great part of them are." "More fit for an hospital than the sea." "All the ragg-tagg that can be picked up."
Look over the reports for the last few months and you will see how many cases we have had to turn away twenty in March, sixteen in February; and this month it is over thirty one a day. Now why waste that room for no purpose?" "Every one of those cases could get into, some of the other hospitals; but who would take the incurables?
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