The lot of sickness was drawn.
Whether my case would be lenient or malignant, whether I should recover or perish, was to be left to the decision of the future.

This incident, instead of appalling me, tended rather to invigorate my courage.

The danger which I feared had come.

I might enter with indifference on this theatre of pestilence.

I might execute, without faltering, the duties that my circumstances might create.