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Rh The very atmosphere of her house was chaotic, and its equally chaotic mistress showed no sign of seeking advice on any point.

"Marm Lisa could hardly be received in the schools," Mary told the listening neophytes one afternoon when they were all together. "There ought of course to be a special place for her and such as she, somewhere, and people are beginning to see and feel the importance of it here; but until the thought and hope become a reality the State will simply put the child in with the idiots and lunatics, to grow more and more wretched, more hopeless, more stupid, until the poor little light is quenched in utter darkness. There is hope for her now, I am sure of it.  If Mrs. Grubb’s neighbors have told me the truth, any physical malady that may be pursuing her is in its very first stages; for, so far as they know in Eden Place, where one doesn’t look for exact knowledge, to be sure, she has had but two or three attacks ('dizziness' or 'faintness' they called them) in as many years.  She was very strange and intractable just before the last one, and much clearer in her mind afterwards.  They think her worse of late, and have advised Mrs. Grubb to send her