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Updated: May 7, 2025
Another brilliant scheme, practical and statesmanlike, so different from the wild projects of demented Socialists, was started by the Rev. Mr Bosher, a popular preacher, the Vicar of the fashionable Church of the Whited Sepulchre. He collected some subscriptions from a number of semi-imbecile old women who attended his church.
"If she could beguile me hither by this assurance, she trusted to her coaxings and my compassion to retain me. O Rosa! Rosa! cannot even the honest hour teach you to be truthful?" The shadow of death drew on apace to the sight of all, save the consumptive, and her semi-imbecile mother. These seemed alike blind to the fatal symptoms that were more strongly defined with every passing day.
They went away commiserating her condition, as being semi-imbecile, semi-lunatic. "She will get over this, go in society, and marry again," they prophesied. They were not the first false prophets who have arisen. A year later, when Juliet Temple was baptized into the Catholic Church, these same people said: "They will get her into a convent, next, where she will awaken to a sense of her folly."
He found that there would be no need to use all the money he had extracted from the semi-imbecile old ladies for timber, so he bought himself a Newfoundland dog, an antique set of carved ivory chessmen, and a dozen bottles of whisky with the remainder of the cash. The reverend gentleman hit upon yet another means of helping the poor.
Give a man one young child to take care of FOR ONE DAY, and when you return to him you find a semi-imbecile, half-tearful creature. In every great man's life you hear some remark of this sort: "How can I work, Maria, if you let the children make such a noise?" Well, how could the millions of Marias work with the children hanging to their skirts all through history?
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