that was all, and thought that everything still was possible for them;
which presupposed that pestilences were impossible. They went on doing
business, arranged for journeys, and formed views. How should they have
given a thought to anything like plague, which rules out any future,
cancels journeys, silences the exchange of views. They fancied
themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.
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