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The rich have their trials too: I am not rich myself, but I have seen the rich with careworn countenances; I have also seen them in mad-houses; from which you may learn, brethren, that the lot of all mankind is hard; that is, till we lay hold of faith, which makes us comfortable under all circumstances; whether we ride in gilded chariots or walk bare-footed in quest of bread; whether we be ignorant, whether we be wise, for riches and poverty, ignorance and wisdom, brethren, each brings with it its peculiar temptations.
Physicians would have given a name to his mental and physical condition. He had heard these names often applied to men the strain of whose lives had been like the strain of his own, and had left them as it had left him jaded, joyless, breaking things. Some of them had been broken and had died or were dragging out bruised and tormented days in their own homes or in mad-houses.
"Yet, have you never thought what a hideous era of bloodshed would have supervened if Christianity had Dot averted it?" asked Yourii nervously. "Ha! ha!" replied Sanine, with a disdainful gesture, "at first, under the cloak of Christianity, the arena was drenched with the blood of the martyrs, and then, later, people were massacred and shut up in prisons and mad-houses.
But " and Alix looked doubtfully from one to the other "but divorce is a hateful thing!" she added, shaking her head, "it it never seems to me justifiable!" "Divorce is an institution," Peter said. "You may not like it any more than you like prisons or mad-houses; it has its uses." "People get divorces every day!" Cherry added. "Isn't divorce better than living along in marriage without love?"
She had heard of people being confined in private mad-houses, through the conspiracy of relatives who coveted their property. Thus far she had believed these stories to be wholly imaginary, but now she began to believe them true. Her own case had shown her the possibility of unjust and illegal imprisonment, and she had not yet been able to find out any mode of escape.
Well, he got him once more into his clutches, and in the dead hour of night, himself you there, Thomas Gourlay one of your villain servants, by name Gillespie, and my own son you that stand there, Thomas Corbet afther making the poor boy dead drunk, brought him off to one of the mad-houses that he had been in before. He, Mr.
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