Let a committee of surgeons and analysts examine my remains.

I defy them to discover a trace of the drug that has killed me.' And they did try, Julie--and discovered nothing.

I wonder whether the suicide has left the receipt for that poison, among his other precious legacies, to his 'friend Doctor -- --.' "Why do I trouble you with these nauseous details?
Because they are in no small degree answerable for my debts.

My husband devotes all his leisure hours to continuing the detestable experiments begun by the Hungarian; and my yearly dress-money for myself and my child has been reduced one half, to pay the chemical expenses.
"Ought I, in this hard case, to have diminished my expenditure to the level of my reduced income?
"If you say Yes, I answer that human endurance has its limits.

I can support the martyrdom of my life; the loss of my dearest illusions and hopes; the mean enmity of our neighbors; the foul-mouthed jealousy of the women; and, more than all, the exasperating patience of a husband who never resents the hardest things I can say to him, and who persists in loving and admiring me as if we were only married last week.