Several died after a few days' sickness, and it was said purplish spots appeared after death, making ghostly contrast with its livid pallor.

The alarm and terror of the community rendered it difficult to obtain nurses for the sick; but, thanks to the benevolent exertions of Dr.Harlowe, we were never left alone.
Richard Clyde, too, came every day, and sometimes two or three times a day to the spring, to know what he could do for us.

No brother could be kinder.

Ah! how brightly, how vividly deeds of kindness stand out on the dark background of sickness and sorrow! I never, never can forget that era of my existence, when the destroying angel seemed winnowing the valley with his terrible wings,--when human life was blown away as chaff before a strong wind.

Strange! the sky was as blue and benignant, the air as soft and serene, as if health and joy were revelling in the green-wood shade.