It is when a poor stranger dies of a sudden that it becomes known that the plague has found another victim.

Why are there double the number of deaths in this week's bill, if more than are set down as such be not the distemper ?" All the faces in the room looked very grave at that, for in truth it was a most disquieting thought.

The sailor came a few steps nearer the fire, and remarked: "It has all come from those hounds of Dutchmen! Right glad am I that we are to go to war with them at last, whether the cause be righteous or not.

They have gotten the plague all over their land.
I saw men drop down in the streets and die of it when I was last in port there.

They send it to us in their merchandise." "My wife will die of terror if she hears but a whisper of the distemper being anigh us," remarked the Master Builder, with a sigh and a look of uneasiness.