18/24 It enters through the door we have left open, just as a thief enters our dwellings, invited through our neglect to make the fastenings sure. It comes under the operations of a law as unvarying as any law in physics. And so long as we have this epidemic-breeding district in the very heart of our city, we must expect to reap our periodical harvests of disease and death. What it is to be next year, or the next, none can tell." "Does not your perpetual contact with all this give your mind an unhealthy tone--a disposition to magnify its disastrous consequences ?" said Mr.Dinneford. The flush and animation went out of his face. |