Hortense

very anxious to see his wife and children. The authorities consented, allowing the children to go in first under the care of an attendant, and afterwards their mother.

Hortense, child as she was, was bewildered by the scene, and her suspicions were evidently excited. As she came out, she said to her mother, \"I think papa's apartments are very small, and the patients are very numerous.\"

Affecting interview.

After the children had left,


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very anxious to see his wife and children. The authorities consented, allowing the children to go in first under the care of an attendant, and afterwards their mother.

Hortense, child as she was, was bewildered by the scene, and her suspicions were evidently excited. As she came out, she said to her mother, \"I think papa's apartments are very small, and the patients are very numerous.\"

Affecting interview.

After the children had left,


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