Both, as has been stated, rushed towards him, and the former eagerly asked his opinion respecting his daughter.
"My opinion is positive," replied Hodges.

"With care, she will undoubtedly recover." "Heaven be thanked!" cried Thirlby, dropping on his knees.
"And now, one word to me, sir," cried Leonard.

"What of Amabel ?" "Alas!" exclaimed the doctor, "her troubles are ended." "Dead!" shrieked Leonard.
"Ay, dead!" repeated the doctor.

"She died of the plague to-night." He then proceeded to detail briefly all that had occurred.

Leonard listened like one stupefied, till he brought his recital to a close, and then asking where the house in which she had died was situated, rushed out of the room, and made his way, he knew not how, into the street.