29“very filthy women”: Ibid., 47, in PHL, page 401 in PDF.
30“indecently torn”: Ibid.
31“unfragrant water”: Ibid., 47–48, in PHL, pages 401–2 in PDF.
32“did not see”: Ibid., 71, in PHL, page 425 in PDF.
33“Sometimes it appeared”: Ibid., 52–53, in PHL, pages 406–7 in PDF.
34“Dr. McFarland knows”: Lizzie Bonner, quoted in ibid., 53, in PHL, page 407 in PDF.
35“Repentance or exposure”: EP, “My Reproof,” MP1, 137.
36“All intercourse between”: “Proclamation,” quoted by SO, MO, 75, in PHL, page 429 in PDF.
37“universal sensation”: Attendant, quoted by EP, PHL, 335.
38“silent hisses”: SO, MO, 75, in PHL, page 429 in PDF.
39“bitter tears”: Ibid.
40“We all felt”: Ibid., 74, in PHL, page 428 in PDF.
41“reign of terror”: Ibid., 76, in PHL, page 430 in PDF.
42“We were seldom”: Ibid., 75, in PHL, page 429 in PDF.
43“and all who”: Ibid., 76, in PHL, page 430 in PDF.
44“Don’t kill me”: Ibid.
45“its most valuable”: Trustees of the Illinois State Hospital, Special Report of the Trustees, 59.
46“even an unworthy”: Testimony of Patterson, in Special Report of the Trustees, 73.
47“I feel that”: EP, GD, 4:279.
48“no use, and”: Ibid.
49“mild and gentle”: SO, MO, 77, in PHL, page 431 in PDF.
50“unmistakeable portents”: Ibid., 76, in PHL, page 430 in PDF.
CHAPTER 30
1“good talking times”: EP, PHL, 119.
2“reign of terror”: SO, MO, 76, in PHL, page 430 in PDF.
3“the capacity”: “Eighth Biennial Report,” 332.
4“full to overflowing”: AM, in ibid., 372.
5“extreme limit”: Ibid., 351.
6“been in so”: “Eighth Biennial Report,” 331.
7“great professional skill”: Ibid., 332.
8“indefinitely postponed”: Trustees’ Records, December 3, 1862, quoted in Special Report of the Trustees, 31.
9“I never felt”: EP, TE, 83.
10“shut their ears”: Ibid., 82.
11“There is no”: Ibid.
12“sickened”: Ibid., 81.
13“If grief can”: Ibid., 83.
14“broken and”: Ibid.
15“It is proper”: Trustees of the Illinois State Hospital, Special Report of the Trustees, 31.
16“In the…retaining”: “Eighth Biennial Report,” 337.
17“very much grieved”: EP, TE, 83.
18Conversation between EP and AM: Recounted by EP, ibid., 81–82.
19“It shall be”: EP, GD, 2:71–72.
20“Perhaps I am”: EP, TE, 83.
21“dead cart”: Shedd, “Testimony of Mrs. Tirzah F. Shedd,” in “Mrs. Packard’s Coadjutor’s Testimony,” 136, in PHL, page 490 in PDF.
22“hasty spade”: SO, MO, 40, in PHL, page 394 in PDF.
23“a beast”: EP, MP2, 271.
24“in the dead”: Ibid., 270.
25“the saddest month”: SO, MO, 78, in PHL, page 432 in PDF.
26“sense of utter”: Ibid.
27“daughters of affliction”: Ibid.
28“dim, shadowy”: Ibid.
29“undermining of every”: Ibid.
30“grass before the”: Francis Augustin O’Reilly, The Fredericksburg Campaign (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003), 318.
31“Doubt—suspense—uncertainty”: EP, TE, 84.
32“The faces of all”: SO, MO, 78, in PHL, page 432 in PDF.
33“Darkness, cold and”: Ibid.
34“the bell heavily”: Ibid.
PART FOUR: DEAL WITH THE DEVIL?
EPIGRAPHS
1“We must have”: Marie Curie, as quoted in Madame Curie: A Biography (Hachette Books, 1937) by Eve Curie, 158.
2“She stood in”: Elizabeth Edwards, as quoted in Sarah Netter, “Elizabeth Edwards: In Her Own Words,” ABC News, December 7, 2010, https://abcnews.go.com/US/elizabeth-edwards-words/story?id=12337723.
CHAPTER 31
1“On this book”: EP, MK, 83.
2“single anchor”: Ibid.
3“sinking ship”: Ibid.
4“He has given”: EP, GD, 2:404.
5“argued and discussed”: EP, MK, 83.
6“Vain my logic”: Ibid.