Like me, she resisted the persuasions of her friends, but her motives for remaining were disinterested and heroic.
"No sooner did her indisposition appear, than she was hurried to the hospital.

I saw that no reliance could be placed upon the assurances of Thetford.

Every consideration gave way to his fear of death.

After the girl's departure, though he knew that she was led by his means to execution, yet he consoled himself by repeating and believing her assertions, that her disease was not _the fever_.
"I was now greatly alarmed for my own safety.

I was determined to encounter his anger and repel his persuasions; and to depart with the market-man next morning.