ABSTRACT
Cloudesley and his family had lived nearly three years in Italy, when Julian was seized with the small-pox. For a day or two before the disease manifested itself, he appeared exceedingly indisposed, was in a high fever, and slept but little, and that uneasily, and with restless and convulsive startings. The little fellow laboured under great depression of spirits, and expressed a presentiment that he should die. Cloudesley and Eudocia were alarmed with his / situation, and treated him with the utmost tenderness, overwhelmed as they were with the apprehension in what way the symptoms they observed would terminate. They had no children of their own; the behaviour of Julian had been at all times kind, affectionate and amiable; he had never, till now, given them a moment’s pain; and their lives seemed bound up in the life of the child.
