Your situation will be a pleasant one in every respect." I shuddered at the idea of fever and ague, with the name of which disease the most pleasant associations were not connected, and congratulated myself on the fact that the Pearl estates were exempted from this and almost every other evil in the shape of sickness.

The next day I completed my preparations for a journey across the mountains to the opposite side of the island.

Agreeably to a suggestion from Bohun, I procured from my accommodating landlady her bill for my board and lodging; to this she added another item for washing, swelling the amount to the very respectable sum of sixty-six dollars.
I handed the bill to Bohun with an innocent and confiding look.

He cast his eye over it, and started back aghast.

"What is all this ?" said he.
"What does it mean?
Why, the woman is crazy." "It is right, sir," I replied.