I only returned to London yesterday, and met an old friend, whom I begged to go before me, and see that all was right before I ventured, in." "We have all been providentially spared," observed Mr.Bloundel, "and you will find your mother as well as when you last quitted her.

You had better go to her." Blaize obeyed, and was received by old Josyna with a scream of delight.
Having embraced him, and sobbed over him, she ran for a bottle of sack, and poured its contents down his throat so hastily as nearly to choke him.

She then spread abundance of eatables before him, and after he had eaten and drank his full, offered him as a treat a little of the plague medicine which she had in reserve.
"No, thank you, mother," replied Blaize.

"I have had enough of _that_.
But if there should be a box of rufuses amongst the store, you can bring it, as I think a couple might do me good." Three days after this event, the apprentice was sent forth to ascertain the precise state of the city, as, if all proved favourable, the grocer proposed to open his house on the following day.

Leonard set out betimes, and was speedily convinced that all danger was at an end.