The plague had received too severe a check to burst forth anew; but it spread further than it otherwise would have done, and attacked many persons, who but for their own imprudence would have escaped.

Amongst others, a barber in Saint Martin's-le-Grand, who had fled into the country in August, returned to his shop in the middle of October, and, catching the disorder from one of his customers, perished with the whole of his family.
But these, and several other equally fatal instances, produced no effect on the multitude.

Fully persuaded that the virulence of the disorder was exhausted--as, indeed, appeared to be the case--they gave free scope to their satisfaction, which was greater than was ever experienced by the inhabitants of a besieged city reduced by famine to the last strait of despair, and suddenly restored to freedom and plenty.

The more pious part of the community thronged to the churches, from which they had been so long absent, and returned thanks for their unexpected deliverance.
Others, who had been terrified into seriousness and devotion, speedily forgot their former terrors, and resumed their old habits.

Profaneness and debauchery again prevailed, and the taverns were as well filled as the churches.