Promise me that you will bring him." "Yes, certainly," cried Melissa, as she hurried out into the vestibule, where Andreas and the leech were waiting for her.
They had done well to enlist the girl's services, for, since nursing her mother, she knew, as few did, how to handle the sick.

It was not till they had fairly set out that Melissa observed that Dame Katharine was of the party; she had no doubt become reconciled to the idea of the sick man's removal to the Serapeum, for she had the same look of kindly calm which had so much attracted the girl at their first meeting.
The streets along which they passed in the pale morning light were now deserted, and a film of mist, behind which glowed the golden light of the newly risen sun, shrouded the horizon.

The fresh air of morning was delicious, and at this early hour there was no one to avoid--only the peasants and their wives carrying the produce of their gardens and fields to market on asses, or wagons drawn by oxen.

The black slaves of the town were sweeping the roadway.

Here there were parties of men, women, and children on their way to work in factories, which were at rest but for a few hours in the bustling town.