The suggestion seemed to startle her.
"You speak very confidently, Doctor."
"With the confidence of one who makes diseases and their cure his
study. I know something of the human soul as well as the human body,
and of the maladies to which both are subjected. A cure is hopeless
in either case, unless the patient will accept the remedy. Pain of
body is the indicator of disease, and gives warning that an enemy to
life has found a lodgment; pain of mind is the same phenomenon, only
showing itself in a higher sphere, and for the same purpose. If you
are unhappy, surrounded by all this elegance, and with the means of
gratifying every orderly wish, it shows that an enemy to your soul
has entered through some unguarded gateway. You cannot get rid of
this enemy by any change of place, or by any new associations.
Society will not help you. The excitement of shows; gauds, glitter,
pageants; the brief triumphs gained in fashionable tournaments, will
not expel this foe of your higher and nobler life, but only veil,
for brief seasons, his presence from your consciousness.
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