Don't neglect him--as you hope for mercy hereafter, do not." "Make yourself easy, mother," replied Judith.

"I will take every care of him." "Have you no fears of the disorder yourself ?" inquired the old woman.
"None whatever," replied Judith.

"I am _a safe woman_." "I do not understand you," replied her mother-in-law, in surprise.
"I have had the plague," replied Judith; "and those who have had it once, never take it a second time." This opinion, entertained at the commencement of the pestilence, it may be incidentally remarked, was afterwards found to be entirely erroneous; some persons being known to have the distemper three or four times.
"You never let us know you were ill," said the old woman.
"I could not do so," replied Judith, "and I don't know that I should have done if I could.

I was nursing two sisters at a small house in Clerkenwell Close, and they both died in the night-time, within a few hours of each other.

The next day, as I was preparing to leave the house, I was seized myself, and had scarcely strength to creep up-stairs to bed.