"This dreadful news of Tulee and the baby unfits me for anything.

Do you think there is no hope it may prove untrue ?" "You know the letter explicitly states that my cousin and his wife, the negro woman, and the white baby, all died of yellow-fever," replied Madame.

"But don't reproach me for leaving them, darling.

I feel badly enough about it, already.

I thought it would be healthy so far out of the city; and it really seemed the best thing to do with the poor little _bambino_, until we could get established somewhere." "I did not intend to reproach you, my kind friend," answered Rosa.