My wife, with a feeble frame and a mind shrinking, on ordinary occasions, from such offices, with fastidious scrupulousness, was to be his only or principal nurse.
My neighbours were fervent in their well-meant zeal, and loud in their remonstrances on the imprudence and rashness of my conduct.

They called me presumptuous and cruel in exposing my wife and child, as well as myself, to such imminent hazard, for the sake of one, too, who most probably was worthless, and whose disease had doubtless been, by negligence or mistreatment, rendered incurable.
I did not turn a deaf ear to these censurers.

I was aware of all the inconveniences and perils to which I thus spontaneously exposed myself.
No one knew better the value of that woman whom I called mine, or set a higher price upon her life, her health, and her ease.

The virulence and activity of this contagion, the dangerous condition of my patient, and the dubiousness of his character, were not forgotten by me; but still my conduct in this affair received my own entire approbation.

All objections on the score of my friends were removed by her own willingness and even solicitude to undertake the province.