...their way to my very heart, while I felt my legs clasped, and a groan repeated by the person that.held me. I lowered my lamp, and saw a negro half clad,...bowed by aching nausea ; till, reflection returning, I sprang up, threw the wretch from me, and darting up the staircase, entered. the chamber usually inhabited...

..."clasped" by "a negro half clad, writhing under the agony of the disease" who convulsively embraces Verney: "I strove to disengage myself, and fell on the sufferer;...mine, and his breath, death-laden, entered my vitals" (245). From this unwilling but powerful embrace of the racial other (significantly, this is the only...

...producing sickening qualms, which made their way to my very heart, while I felt my leg clasped, and a groan repeated by the person that held me. I lowered...entered the chamber usually inhabited by my family. 19 A dim light shewed me Alfred on a couch; Clara trembling, and paler than whitest snow, had raised...

...enormous epidemiological crises. In Tlie Last Man, Verney is infected by his encounter with a black man: "I lowered my lamp, and saw a negro half clad, writhing...mine, and his breath, death-laden, entered my vitals" (245). This episode powerfully embodies the fear of contagion that shaped European encounters with...

...clasped, and a groan repeated by the person that held me. I lowered my lamp, and saw a negro half-clad, writhing under the agony of disease, while he held...bowed by aching nausea; till, reflection returning, I sprang up, threw the wretch from me, and darting up the staircase, entered the chamber usually inhabited...

...and entering a darkened room from which emanates 'a pernicious scent', Verney feels his leg clasped: I lowered my lamp, and saw a negro half clad, writhing...close to mine, and his breath, death-laden, entered my vitals.48 The only clear-cut example of infection in the novel involves the only nonEuropean character...

...producing sickening qualms, which made their way to my very heart, while I felt my leg clasped, and a groan repeated by the person that held me. I lowered...chamber usually inhabited by my family. A dim light shewed me Alfred on a couch; Clara trembling, and paler than whitest snow, had raised him on her arm,...

...producing sickening qualms, which made their way to my 58 very heart, while I felt my leg clasped, and a groan repeated by the person that held me. I lowered...chamber usually inhabited by my family. A dim light shewed me Alfred on a couch; Clara trembling, and paler than whitest 59 snow, had raised him on her...

...producing sickening qualms, which made their way to my very heart, while I felt my leg clasped, and a groan repeated by the person that held me. I lowered...mine, and his breath, death-laden, entered my vitals. Fora moment I was overcome, my head was bowed by aching nausea; till, reflection returning, I sprung...