Trip 357 of 3900 collection book30

The physicianbook25 had run to an apothecarys shop in the neighbourhood from whence he soon returned with an assistant who applied a large blister to the back of the miserable patient while the female by the doctors direction moistened his mouth with a cordial which he had prescribed. He saw there could be no dissimulation or sinister design in this profession of penitence. I am ashamed said she to reveal my own folly yet I dare not refuse a satisfaction of this kind to a person who has laid me under such signal obligations. Renaldo was deeply affected with the contents of this scroll which denoted such horror and despair. This charitable law which was intended for a consolation to the wretched proved to us the most severe disaster for we were turned out into the streets utterly destitute of food raiment and lodging at a time when Mr. Then our calamities began to multiply.whole life was a series of fraud perfidy and the most abominable ingratitude. Though his hardhearted creditor had no other chance of being paid than that of setting him at liberty he lent a deaf ear to all our supplications and this cruelty conspiring with the anguish of my husbands own reflection affected his health and spirits to such a degree that he could no longer earn the miserable pittance which had hitherto supported our lives.

previous trip 357 | 3900 next trip