Out! What have we ever been in for ?' 'For no very strong reason, I must say.

But as we come from the East, and as the East is the country of the plague--' 'The plague!' repeated the other.

'That's my grievance.

I have had the plague continually, ever since I have been here.

I am like a sane man shut up in a madhouse; I can't stand the suspicion of the thing.