Soon after this, Doctor Hodges took his leave, and had already reached the street-door, when he was arrested by Patience, who inquired with much anxiety whether he knew anything of Blaize.
"Make yourself easy about him, child," replied the doctor; "I am pretty sure he is safe and sound.

He has had the plague, certainly; but he left the hospital at Saint Paul's cured.
"O then I _shall_ see him again," cried Patience, joyfully.

"Poor dear little fellow, it would break my heart to lose him." "I will make inquiries about him," rejoined Hodges, "and if I can find him, will send him home." And without waiting to receive the kitchen-maid's thanks, he departed.
For some days the grocer continued to pursue pretty nearly the same line of conduct that he had adopted during the height of the pestilence.

But he did not neglect to make preparations for resuming his business; and here Leonard was of material assistance to him.

They often spoke of Amabel, and Mr.Bloundel strove, by every argument he was master of, to remove the weight of affliction under which his apprentice laboured.