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Or, does it seem 'good, meet, and your bounden duty, to have me promptly inoculated with small-pox, for the destruction of my skin, which is unjustifiably smoother and clearer than " "Hush, hush!" He laid his hand over her lips, and, for a while, there was an awkward pause.
The princes of the Continent and the nobles of England paid no regard to Elizabeth's declaration, but continued to do all in their power to obtain her hand. One or two years afterward Elizabeth was attacked with the small-pox, and for a time was dangerously sick, in fact, for some days her life was despaired of, and the country was thrown into a great state of confusion and dismay.
It was fated that this day we were to be honoured by peculiar company at our dinner. In addition to the small-pox man, there came an ill-looking fellow of the name of Fayel, who at once proceeded to make himself at his ease beside us.
She grew delirious that very night, and so continued till her death, which happened on the sixth day, when the small-pox began to appear. During her delirium she discovered our love, and incessantly called on me to deliver her from her tyrant. Thus, in the flower of her age, perished one of the most lovely women I ever knew, and with her fled all I held most dear.
When I arrived at Versailles, I wrote to M. de Beauvilliers at Meudon praying him to apprise the King that I had returned on account of the illness of Monseigneur, and that I would have gone to see him, but that, never having had the small-pox, I was included in the prohibition.
'Why, Lord, Lord, you are sickening for the small-pox! he cried. 'Oh I forgot! faltered Betty.
Among a race in this bodily condition, the ordinary epidemics of the country cholera, small-pox, and dysentery make fearful havoc. Whole villages have often been depopulated in a few days by these diseases; and a deadly fever which used to appear from time to time among the Indians, until the last century, sometimes carried off ten thousand and twenty thousand at once.
It was a wretched room, with no furniture but a mat. Here the mother and the children slept that night, while the servant, wrapped in his cloth, lay at the door. They had no supper that night. Next day, they bought food in the village, with some silver that the lady kept carefully concealed in her clothes. A new trouble soon came upon them. Mary was seized with a small-pox of a dreadful sort.
Received but once. 7. If common matter be contagious? 8. Why some contagions are received but once. 9. Why others may be received frequently. Contagions of small-pox and measles do not act at the same times. Two cases of such patients. 10. The blood from patients in the small-pox will not infect others. Cases of children thus inoculated. The variolous contagion is not received into the blood.
Joseph raised his head, and a smile illumined his pale face. "Oh," cried he, "I am a happy man; I have had the small-pox! I at least can remain with her until she recovers or dies." "Yes, but you will convey the infection to your relatives." "I will not leave the room, doctor," said Joseph resolutely. "No inmate of the palace shall receive the infection through me.
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