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Behind the pesthouse by lantern light men were digging a hurried grave.

Now, blessed be God, all our fears are over, for none have died of the infection since the 11th of October, and all the pesthouses have been long empty.

Hence a universal Pythagorean noviciate would, sooner or later, give rise to epidemics, and Chartreuses of nuns would become pesthouses.

Jails were pesthouses, in which a disease, akin to our modern typhus, flourished often in epidemic form.

Among them also, undoubtedly, were many good high-minded men; the Jesuit, Friedrich Spee, met his death in a pesthouse, like that sailor in the flames.