An eye for an eye
(Large Type)

At a private asylum in the west of England there lives and has lived for some years past, an unfortunate lady as to whom there has long since ceased to be any hope that she should ever live elsewhere. Indeed there is no one else belonging to her by whom the indulgence of such a hope on her behalf could be cherished. Friends she has none and her condition is such that she recks nothing of confinement and does not even sigh for release. And yet her mind is ever at work as is doubtless always the case with the insane. She has present to her apparently in every waking moment of her existence an object of intense interest..."An eye for an eye" she says "and a tooth for a tooth is that not the law?" these words she repeats daily from morning to night. This is the story of her life until madness placed her within these walls.