On the following day, symptoms of fever appeared, and St.Aubert, having sent for medical advice, learned, that her disorder was a fever of the same nature as that, from which he had lately recovered.

She had, indeed, taken the infection, during her attendance upon him, and, her constitution being too weak to throw out the disease immediately, it had lurked in her veins, and occasioned the heavy languor of which she had complained.

St.Aubert, whose anxiety for his wife overcame every other consideration, detained the physician in his house.

He remembered the feelings and the reflections that had called a momentary gloom upon his mind, on the day when he had last visited the fishing-house, in company with Madame St.Aubert, and he now admitted a presentiment, that this illness would be a fatal one.

But he effectually concealed this from her, and from his daughter, whom he endeavoured to re-animate with hopes that her constant assiduities would not be unavailing.