The precepts of my duty cannot be mistaken.
The lady must be sought and the money restored to her." Certain obstacles existed to the immediate execution of this scheme.

How should I conduct my search?
What apology should I make for withdrawing thus abruptly, and contrary to the terms of an agreement into which I had lately entered, from the family and service of my friend and benefactor Hadwin?
My thoughts were called away from pursuing these inquiries by a rumour, which had gradually swelled to formidable dimensions; and which, at length, reached us in our quiet retreats.

The city, we were told, was involved in confusion and panic, for a pestilential disease had begun its destructive progress.

Magistrates and citizens were flying to the country.

The numbers of the sick multiplied beyond all example; even in the pest-affected cities of the Levant.