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∗ Since the above was written the patient has completely recovered. The sequel to the story is very sad. The husband had gone to sea soon after his marriage, leaving his wife in the charge of her mother, to whom he gave money for her maintenance. He, through a series of misfortunes, was not heard of for many months, and the funds being exhausted the mother recommended her child to marry again, but failing in persuading her to do so, suggested to her the streets as a source of income, and afterwards encouraged the advances of a lodger, to whose perfidy the poor creature fell a victim. The husband returned while his wife was in the hospital, nineteen months after his departure. The scene which occurred when he heard that his wife had shortly before been confined is not easy to describe, and it was intensely painful. It became my duty to impart the information to him, and I did so in the presence of the wife's father. A greater moral shock, than for a young man of a generous and noble spirit to return, inspired with hope, after a long and necessary absence, to a young wife, and find her the mother of another man's child and an inmate of a lunatic asylum, could I think hardly occur.Google Scholar