He was taken ill at night.

The next morning the doctor pronounced that his disease was a malignant and infectious fever.

His wife and Viola shared in their tender watch; but soon that task was left to the last alone.

The Signora Pisani caught the infection, and in a few hours was even in a state more alarming than that of her husband.

The Neapolitans, in common with the inhabitants of all warm climates, are apt to become selfish and brutal in their dread of infectious disorders.