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said, ‘It may be that thou wilt not have to return here again.’
She sprang up instantly, and looking in his face with intense anxiety, exclaimed, ‘Am I pardoned?
Am I pardoned?’
‘Yes, thou art pardoned,’ he replied; ‘and I have come to take thee home.’
She fell back into her seat, covered her face with her hands, and wept aloud.
Friend Hopper, describing this interview in a letter to a friend, says: ‘It was the most affecting scene I ever witnessed.
Nothing could exceed the joy I felt at seeing this child of sorrow relieved from her sufferings, and restored to liberty.
I had seen this young and comely looking woman, who was endowed with more than common good sense, driven to the depths of despair by the intensity of her sufferings.
I had seen her a raving maniac.
Now, I saw her “sitting and clothed in her right mind.”
I was a thousand times more than compensated for all the pains I had taken.
I had sympathized deeply with her sufferings, and I now partook largely of her joy.’
As her nerves were in a very excitable state, it was thought best that she should remain a few weeks under the superintendence of his daughter, Mrs. Gibbons, before she went to the home provided for her. She was slightly unsettled at times, but was disposed to be industrious and cheerful.
Having earned a little money by her needle, the first use she made of it,
Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
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