The wound on the leg was worse than I at first supposed.

It seems slow in healing and has been much inflamed, although now yielding to remedies.

My hope was to have spent some weeks in New York, but it will now depend on the time of the healing of my leg.
"The ways of God are mysterious, and I find prayer answered in a way not at all anticipated.

This accident, as we are apt to call it, I can plainly see is calculated to effect many salutary objects.

I needed rest of body and mind after my intense anxieties and exertions, and I might have neglected it, and so, perhaps, brought on premature disease of both; but I am involuntarily laid up so that I must keep quiet, and, although the fall that caused my wound was painful at first, yet I have no severe pain with it now.