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Kate and Kendrick were those rare English bureaucrats who lived in the future not the past, something that no one in Ireland ever did.
“Men did then no more die by tale and by number. They might put out a weekly bill, and call them seven or eight thousand, or what they pleased; ’tis certain they died by heaps, and were buried by heaps, that is to say, without account.”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
“You've brought out your best butter." [you're laying on the flattery thickly]”
― The Seven Dials Mystery
― The Seven Dials Mystery
“here I cannot but take notice that the strange temper of the people of London at that time contributed extremely to their own destruction.”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
“though it is true all the people did not go out of the city of London, yet I may venture to say that in a manner all the horses did; for there was hardly a horse to be bought or hired in the whole city for some weeks.”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
“The face of London was now indeed strangely altered:”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
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