I discern no symptoms of abatement of the distemper, but, on the contrary, an evident increase of malignity, and such is the opinion of all I have spoken with on the subject.

Chowles told me he buried two hundred more yesterday than he had ever done before, and yet he did not carry a third of the dead to the plague-pit.

He is a strange fellow that Chowles.

But for his passion for his horrible calling there is no necessity for him to follow it, for he is now one of the richest men in London." "He must have amassed his riches by robbery, then," remarked Leonard.
"True," returned Rainbird.

"He helps himself without scruple to the clothes, goods, and other property, of all who die of the pestilence; and after ransacking their houses, conveys his plunder in the dead-cart to his own dwelling." "In Saint Paul's ?" asked Leonard.
"No--a large house in Nicholas-lane, once belonging to a wealthy merchant, who perished, with his family, of the plague," replied Rainbird.