"No, Doctor." It was the mother who answered my question. "And in
order that you may understand the case clearly, let me say, that it
is only a week since we arrived from England. We came over in a
steamer, and were fifteen days in making the trip. From Boston, we
came here in our own carriage. Before leaving home, Blanche went
around to see a number of poor cottagers in our neighbourhood, and
there was sickness at several of the places where she called. In one
cottage, particularly, was a case of low fever. I was troubled when
I learned that she had been there, but still hoped that her
excellent state of health would repel anything like contagion.
During the first part of our voyage, she suffered considerably from
sea-sickness; but got along very well after that. If it hadn't been
for the unhappy scenes of the last few days, with their painfully
exciting consummation, I think she would have thrown off, wholly,
any lurking tendency to disease."
I turned my face partly aside, so that its expression could not be
seen. The facts stated, and the symptoms as now presented, left me
in little doubt as to the nature of the malady against which I had
to contend.
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