I question much whether her disease was pestilential.

It was, probably, a slight indisposition, which, in a few days, would have vanished of itself, or have readily yielded to suitable treatment.
"Thetford was transfixed with terror.

Instead of summoning a physician, to ascertain the nature of her symptoms, he called a negro and his cart from Bush Hill.

In vain the neighbours interceded for this unhappy victim.

In vain she implored his clemency, and asserted the lightness of her indisposition.