I am fair beset to know what to do for them.

Nothing will convince Madam but that there be dead carts at every street corner, and that the child will bring home death with her every time she stirs out.

Yet Frederick comes to and fro, and she admits him to her presence (though she holds a handkerchief steeped in vinegar to her nose the while), and she gets no harm from him." "Poor child!" said Rachel, thinking of Gertrude, whom once she had known so well, running to and fro in the house almost like one of her own.

"Would that we could do somewhat for her.

But I fear me her mother would not suffer her to visit us, especially since poor Janet came home last night from a plague-stricken house." Reuben's eyes had brightened suddenly at his mother's words, but the gleam died out again, and he remained quite silent whilst the story of Janet's appearance at home was told.