Nevertheless, I have escaped some bad symptoms.

No spitting of blood, for instance, no loss of voice, and scarcely a threatening of pain in the side.

Also I have not grown thinner than is natural under the circumstances.

At Genoa (after our cold journey[45]) I _wasted_ in a few days, and thought much worse of myself than there was reason to do this time.
I can assure you I am now much restored.

The cough is decidedly got under, and teases me, for the most part, only in the early morning; the fever is gone, and the nights are quiet.