Certain women of a lymphatic temperament will pretend to have the spleen and will even feign death, if they can only gain thereby the benefit of a secret divorce.[Quelques femmes lymphatiques affecteront d’avoir le spleen, et feront les mortes pour obtenir les bénéfices d’un secret divorce.]
Source:(Dana Estes & Co., ed. 1901), Part III. Relating to Civil War, Meditation XXIII. Of Manifestoes, Page 238
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