It came about in a tragic manner, for his land was visited by what people called the plague, but which was, in reality, a form of cholera. Never had such a disease been amongst them before, and when the first rumours of it reached Dunster folk spoke of it in low voices. Their dread of it went beyond reason. They apprehended it in the imagination, and feared the evil of it more than they feared death, as though its uncleanness, its taint, its corruption, would not only destroy and rot the body but pursue the living quick beyond the grave itself. Their instinct of recoil was an instinct of pure horror. Sandy Ware said it was God’s judgement upon them for their sins, for the carnal pleasure that turned its worldly face from the Almighty to make merry with Mammon. “When the silver herring were swimming into your nets God was forgotten. With money in your hands, you danced. The great ships came and took your barrels away. Away to the ends of the earth. The ends of the earth are very far away.
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