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or more insane men and women in Maine.
I have no personal end to gain- none
under the sun. God is my witness,
Sir, I have much to lose. I pressure before
this matter is done I shall lose some friends
whose friendship and love I prize very much.
But, sir, my experience and observation during
these three or four years have produced this
conviction: that if I do not do what is now
put in my had to do I shall carry a 
sorrowful heart to my dying day. And see, 
as it were, the hands of suffering stretched
out in reproach towards me and hear their
voiced reproaching me for not doing my duty.
I have nothing personal to ask. I have a 
great deal to lose. I may be allowed to
say that I presume every member of this
Committee is aware of the fact that a member of
my household is in that hospital. I have to ask
of this Committee not to allow that to have a
feathers-weight in this investigation, nor a feathers
weight in anything that I shall have to say, 
not a word. I have no complaint at present
in reference to that. That must be thrown out
entirely. I believe that she is under the care of
attendants that cannot be excelled for greatness,