He showed me that I could no longer afford the large buildings in the Chepe.
He heard of these small premises going a-begging for a purchaser, all connected with them having perished in the plague.

The small sum left to me of the purchase money of the house, after my debts were paid, sufficed to buy them; and now I have two steady workmen in my employ, instead of the scores I once had.

But God be thanked, we have never been idle all these weeks.

And it may be that by-and-by, as confidence returns, I may get something of a business together again." "Thou hast been purifying and disinfecting houses, they say, for the wealthy ones of the city ?" "Ay; that was our good friend's thought.

The Lord Mayor and authorities issued general directions for this work; and Harmer suggested to me that I should print handbills offering to undertake the purging of any house entrusted to me for a fixed fee.