Not that for the time being the city itself is infected, and we hope to keep it free--" "Then men are worse fools than I take them for," was the sharp retort.

"Keep the plague out of the city! Bah! what nonsense will they talk next! Is it not written in the very heavens that the city is to be destroyed?
Heed not their idle prognostications.

I tell you, young man, that the plague is already amongst us, even though men know it not.

In a few more weeks half the houses in the very city itself will be shut up, and grass will be growing in the streets.

We may be thankful if there are enough living to bury the dead.