A blind man's offering / by B. B. Bowen.

  • B. B. Bowen
Date:
1850
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A blind man's offering / by B. B. Bowen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion, made of every creature’s best.” During the whole time which Maria spent in the institution, there was only one perceptible change of the aspect she wore, —* only once did the sadness which rested upon her like the shadow of a cloud, depart and leave her an altered being. It was then that we first perceived what she might have been in her earlier years, — a merry, laugh- ing, happy creature, 11 too good For human nature’s daily food.” Now that I am about to introduce another character, I would remind the reader that I am not dealing in romance or fiction, but simply portraying what belongs to the real occurrences of that period which was to me the beginning of life, though it was not till after I had somewhat advanced in years. One day, a little more than a year after Maria came among us, we were officially informed that a young medical gentleman, a veritable disciple of Hippocrates, who had recently been, by accident, deprived of his sight, was about to become an inmate of our home. As he had received a collegiate education, and was withal a great man, having the grave title of “ M. D.,” some of the knowing ones among us prophesied that the “ doctor” was destined for an instructor. In this, how- ever, they were mistaken, as many a pretended prophet has been. Dr. Rochford, for such we will call him, having been deprived of his sight by one of those acci- dents to which medical men by their chemical experi- ments are exposed, and having thus all his bright hopes in life taken from him, was anxious to seclude himself from society, or, if that was impossible, to spend his life with those who, like himself, were forever shut out from the light of heaven. He requested of the trustees
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