It is a hard thing for the whole to be thus shut in with the infected; but as men truly say, how shall the whole city escape if something be not done to restrain the people from passing to and fro, and spreading the distemper everywhere ?" "I have thought," said Dinah, very quietly, "that it may be given to me to offer myself as a nurse for these poor persons.

I have passed unscathed through many perils before now.

Once I verily believe I was with one who died even of this distemper, albeit the physician called it the spotted fever, which frights men less than the name of plague.

There be many herbs and simples and decoctions which men say are of great value in keeping the infection at bay.
And even were it not so, we must not be thinking only at such times of saving our own lives.

There be some that must be ready to risk even life, if they may serve their brethren.