"Madwoman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her hands as if in bitter woe. Her dress was neglected, and her hair unbrushed: indeed, when Janetta was too busy to give her a daughter's loving care, as it was her custom and her pleasure to do, poor Mrs. Brand roamed about the house looking like a madwoman. Her madness was, however, of a gentle kind: it took the form of melancholia, and manifested itself chiefly by continual restlessness and occasional bursts of ...
— A True Friend - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... the Gentleman's Objection against the Persecution that Pamela suffers from lady Davers, in respect to the Relation this Madwoman bears to the Brother, is the [4th & 5th, change 5.] {rashest} of All his Advices! And when he thinks she ought rather to have assum'd the Protection of her Servants, he seems unaware of the probable Consequence; where there was a Puppy, of Quality, ...
— Samuel Richardson's Introduction to Pamela • Samuel Richardson |
