GRIEF IN DARKNESS.
STRANGE CASE IN PAEIS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Eec. May 11, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, May 10. The police have removed from her abode an old woman named Lerat, who was in a dying condition. Her grief at her sister's death so affected her that sho shut herself in her flat and lived in darkness for seven years. The circumstances of tho case recall tho story of Miss Havisham in Dickens's "Great Expectations." Tho Miss Havisham of Dickens's novel was nn old spinster who lived in Satis House. She was the daughter of a brewer, and was.jilted on her wedding morn. From that day she liecame eccentric, always wore her wedding dress, with a lace veil from head to foot, white satin gloves, bridal flowers in her hair, jewels round her neck and on her fingers. Latterly she somehow set fire to herself, but Pip (another of the- characters in tho book) saved her. She died from shock soon after, and Satis House was pulled down.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1747, 12 May 1913, Page 5
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167GRIEF IN DARKNESS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1747, 12 May 1913, Page 5
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