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"Nurse and physician fled at the sight ofwith horror, bore the shock, and bowed to the retributive

justice of the angry Deity she had invoked His whole life, his whole

nature, changed fro beside h Heaven to cherish and love

hastly creature I was The

physician he bound by a terrible oath to silence; the nurse he forced

back, and, in spite of her disgust and abhorrence, compelled her to

nurse and care for ht; and we had

rooms in a distant part of the house, which no one ever entered but

h set apart fro

accursed, I had the intellect and capacity of--yes, far greater

intellect and capacity than, most children; and, as years passed by, my

father, true to his vow, became himself my tutor and companion He did

not love me--that was an utter is, that even the nurse became reconciled to er So I was cared for, and

instructed, and educated; and, knowing not what a monstrosity I was, I

loved theh, in my splendid

prison, for e My nurse died; and it became clear that I must quit

my solitary life, and see the sort of world I lived in So ht beside me, and told

me the story of my own hideousness I was but a child then, and it is

, I feel what I