Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-03-06
Madness with Method in it.

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very prepossessing and prettily spo
ken woman, somewhere between
sweet-sixteen and twenty-five years
tof age, drove up to the dool
of the Insane Hospital, over which
Dr.. presides, and inquired fol
that gentleman. She was ushered
into the reception room, and awaited
the coming of the doctor with an all
of aonchaleaec which rather fasci-
mated the servant, who looked upon
her with eyes Of admiration and un-
feigned pleasure. When left alone,
she amused herself, as woman al
ways will, in gratifying her curiosity
by inspecting the various articles IN
the room critically and thoroughly.
The doctor being announced, she re-
ceiyed him with one Of those bewil-
dering smiles which some women
know SO we'll how to bestow, and
whose influence no man of feeling
can resist. The doctor welcomed
her with more than usual warmth,
and soon learned the object of her
visit.
She had come, she said, with a
glance full of melancholy and a tone
of more than womanly tenderness, to
ascertain of the doctor, in person,
whether she could secure private
quarters for her husband, who was
subject to intense fits of alteration
of mind, but whose conduct towards
her, bitter and cruel as it was, could
not alienate hi love for him which
was the all-pervading passion Of her
soul. He had grown so violent OF
late thatshe wishedt to have him secured
from violence to himself as we'll as to
her, land here the charming creature
wept for some moments and if she
could make an arrangement with the
doctor, she urged that it should be
kept as private as private thoughts,
and her husband beyond the scrutiny
of visitors. And then she said her
heart would break, she knew it would,
and wept bitterly and long.
The doctor, as all who know his
kind and tender heartedness will i'm
agine, was not insensible to the touch
ing recital of his visitor, and with
that frankness which always eharac-
terizes him, he promised to comply
with her wishes, to give her husband
a private apartment and his special
care; and also to shield him from the
gaze of curiosity seekers who run
down public institutions.
The lady was not long in arranging
terms; she was not long in expressing
lher thanks intermingled with tears
she was not long in settling the de
tails of her husbands confinement
she was not long in short in taking hel
leave. And as she stepped into he
carriage, aided by the kind hand o
the doctor, she turned her beautiful
face toward him and cast upon him
glance that was full of tenderness ant
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solicitude, and inspired him anew witt
admiration and pity.
The carriage drove away, the doc
tors eye followed amid the clouds 9
dust which followed in its wake unit
| it was entirely lost to view. Dow
to the bridge along the crowded thol
, oughfare, over the pebbled way b
! Chestnut street to a fashionable
: if not the most fashionable jewelr
; establishment of our city, the carrlag
: passed. its sweet and solitary inmat
: glancing out and smiling within, an
: growing radiant with a thought ths
9 requires another paragraph to. learn.
She alighted, and glided into th
{ bazaarof gold and silver and preclo1
!. stones with all the statellness. OF
: queen. One or two of the gentl'
manly attendants ran to learn n
wish. She wanted to select a set
: silver ware, not too elaborate in des'g
> or workmanship, nor yet too plan
: something neat, tasteful and beautlfl
The various patterns were shown, an
J a set valued at S500iwas selected :
1.-THE lady of stately tread. She q
,llsires the article to be put up, a o
a made out, and she would settle
!. Her wishes we're complied with, al
!. the lady took out her elegant 20
s monnaie, but alas! there was but y
o lin IT. She had picked up her wro'
+ port monnaie, and she was vexed
t her stupidity. She, howsver, 9 cou
arrange it, She was the wlle