New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-02

beautiful, good Iepura Arden for his wi'' .~R',
cally siucr she Vas 50 Immensely iI'u a., 'niI,
\, for the world. II meant 10 trIl MON pom
Inv, sorry il WA that il hal misunderstood them
oC cour-n il would he sinful not 10 hope that
Adele mi.ht some day get we'll bHt she ma
her desert. and il she eyer came back 10 society,
PEOPLE would not care 10 meet h'I HI'. "I-l
90 mad again NJ any moment ana try 10 rum
some one Else and might succeed the next Time
That was the way in which most people talked
du,ing th, season, and th" world actFI mp 10
ill., words ~ 4 generally docs Wh"h tn'r" are
halls and dinners TO be got by merely beng con
sstcut II was much NOR" agreeable. t2o' ID
live on terms OF pleasant intcrr"ui>" WIN l''url
and bnr b,frothrd. and much easier, bccans" 1t
j. always tircsomc 10 keep up pr'Jndi'" against
really charming people.
Hnt Adele was not mad, ~ p"opl" slld ana as the
,vo f,,nilic. cave ont Their" hal undoubtedly
been a strain of insanity through an h'r con
Duct and that might som" daN' "'N'inp INTO
real madness She was san" enough, sun, now
cvrr "a FOR and no such m"rcltnl termination
IA her suttcrnQS the loss Of hci reason WoalI
be seemed At all imminent he strong VIII ann
.cutc intcllg,nc, had survived, for ia" poisonous
DING sh. loved had attacked IN" body, wlnch
was the weaker portion Of her being. Al'r
was horclrssly paralyIed. Inc ilSi srrat cilor'
lad been too much for TIE oyerNiruhg nerves
IL, hands still moved cOnvusiNrly, hut ~h,
could not direct them at all. Tier jaw had
dropped az II almost always LoeS IN anN"m i,,a
usce,s Day after day she sat or Law bri1r"
tL. fire in her room M CaSt"l SaYrllo. ~ She
,niohf remain Tor years, I'lN''l ~ pau Hui "T,
and hclplcss to do the slightest thing Tor h'r-
srlf-through the short days and IN" Tong nights
of winter. hardly cherr"d by IN" sunshine when
srriuc came NJ last, longing for the end II was
indeed a dreadful existence Nothing 70 do,
milling TO think of but the t"rri5l" black past.
mothing 10 occupy her. save IN" monOtonoUS trac-
ino hack of her present stat" 10 h"r first mis-
dcds stcp hv step. inch by inch in the cold
l;obt Of nm inc\orablc logic. u was hard 10
Iinve what her conieSSor told her. That Ale
.Lould be grateful for having tim" AMI reason
lnr, Ia rrpcni Of what she had donc, AMI 70 ,.N-
mare. in "A measure, the evil Of her life. "
r, tint was the only comfort s-
ao,' from any one She had diseraccl
,I, unm. of Savrl she was told. ami no
smncrin" could atone for that. She felt that she
,,as hated and dc-piscd, and that although every
zinc which money could do was don" To proong
hor vrntchcd being, her death ANTICIPATED "A
" rclicl from her dccs;cd presence IN the house
Loid upon which she had brought such shame II
,vouId he hard conceive Il more fearful punish
mont than she was made 10 undergo, forcibly kept
.i;vc bv thc constant care and iorcthOught of the
most o.perlcnccd porsous, and allowed only lust
N much of the morphln" ~ was positively nccrs-
snrv She had no LONGER the power - grasp the
iittie instrument II she had been able 10 do that
sho ,youli have found rest forever, a. she told
herself And they crnclly diminished the dose.
tbouch they would not tell her by how much
She would 1--we longer. they said, If the quantity
could he greatly reduced She begged. implorcd
entroated them not TO torture her But they
could hardly understand what she said for the