I have never seen a pest house.

I would fain know what it looks like.

And we might get more news there of the truth of those things that they say about the plague in the city.

Ben, what sayest thou ?" Ben's eyes were round with wonder and excitement.

The boys had all the careless daring and eager curiosity which belong to boy nature.
They were by this time so much habituated to living under conditions of risk and a certain amount of peril, that a little more or a little less did not now seem greatly to matter.
"Would our good aunt approve ?" asked the younger boy.
"I trow not," answered Joseph frankly; "women are always timid, and she would say, perchance, that unless duty called us it were foolish to adventure ourselves into danger.