She could not be more than twenty; and though want and other
suffering had done the work of time, had wasted her frame, and robbed her
cheek of its bloom and roundness, they had not extinguished the lustre of her
eyes, nor thinned her raven hair. The terrific mental tension of the past few months
—that had held his bodily nourishment in a kind of strangulation—became as a
dream; and now his vitals responded rapidly to food and air. She said it audibly, having learned long since that an
audible prayer was a concentrated one. ”
He stepped back as though he had received a blow. The child was now
within reach; and, in another moment, he would have executed his deadly
purpose, if an arm from behind had not felled him to the ground. To his great joy
he found a small garret-door in the roof of the opposite house open. Aware of the cunning and desperate
characters of the persons with whom she would have to deal,—aware, also, that
she was in a quarter where no laws could be appealed to, nor assistance obtained,
she felt the absolute necessity of caution.
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