The
packets were hastily broken open; and, while Wood was absorbed in the perusal
of the despatch addressed to him by Sir Rowland, Thames sought out, and found
the letter which he had been prevented from finishing on the fatal night at
Jonathan Wild's. So he
sharpened a score of pencils, and after fiddling about and rewriting the last page
he had written the previous night, he plunged into work. Next to the executioner
stood his wife—the former Mrs. "
The air in the narrow street, which was not eight feet wide, swarmed with smells
impossible to define; but all at once the pleasantly pungent odour of Chinese
incense drifted across the girl's face, and gratefully she quickened her
inhalations. “I don’t see why I should take it secondhand. "Yes … but dreadfully tired. The brain tires of resistance, and when it meets
again and again, incoherently active, the same phrases, the same ideas that it has
already slain, exposed and dissected and buried, it becomes less and less
energetic to repeat the operation. Life! Life and love! It makes me
want to be always young, always strong, always devoting my life—and dying
splendidly. The
air became hot and swollen with June humidity. Meanwhile,
the executioner had attached strong cords to his ankles and wrists, and fastened
them tightly to the iron rings.
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