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Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story

Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE SCHEIMER SENSATION. THE SCHEIMER FAMILY?IN LOVE WITH SARAH?ATTEMPT TO ELOFE?HOW IT WAS PREVENTED?THE SECOND ATTEMPT?A MIDNIGHT EXPEDITION?THE ALARM?A FRIGHTFUL BEATING ESCAPE FLOGGING THE DEVIL OUT OP SARAH?WINTER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE RETURN TO NEW JERSEY BOSTON YANKEE PLANS TO SECURE SARAH. I went at once to the Prisoners Home, where I was kindly received, and I stayed there two days. The superintendent then paid my passage to Pitts- field where I wished to go and meet my son. From Pittsfield I went to Albany, then to New York, and from there to Newtown, N. J. Here I went into practice, meeting with almost immediate success, and staid there two months. It was my habit to go from town to town to attend to cases of a certain class and to sell my vegetable preparations; and from Newtown I went to Belvidere, stopping at intermediate towns on the way, and from Belvidere I went to Harmony, a short distance below, to attend a case of white swelling, which I cured. Now just across the Delaware river, nine miles above Easton, Penn., lived a wealthy Dutch farmer, named Scheimer, who heard of the cure I had effected in Harmony, and as he had a son, sixteen years of age, afflicted in the same way, he .sent for me to come and see him. I crossed the river, saw the boy, and at Scheimcr's request took up my residence with him to attend to the case. He was to give me, with my board, five hundred dollars if I cured the boy; but though the boy recovered under my treatment, I never received my fee for reasons which will appear anon. I secured some other practice in the neighborhood, and frequently visited Easton, Belvidere, Harmony, Oxford, and other near by places on either side of the river. The Scheimer family consisted of the old folks and four so...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217989459
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 72
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217989454
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 118 gr

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