It would not be proper, therefore, to lie in any one of them.

Perhaps thou mayest find some repose upon this carpet.

It is, at least, better than the harder pavement and the open air." This proposal, after some hesitation, I embraced.

He was preparing to leave me, promising, if life were spared to him, to return early in the morning.

My curiosity respecting the person whose dying agonies I had witnessed prompted me to detain him a few minutes.
"Ah!" said he, "this, perhaps, is the only one of many victims to this pestilence whose loss the remotest generations may have reason to deplore.