She had turned round sideways, so as to look down into the fire. “I have always,” she admitted calmly, “taken a certain amount of interest in Annabel’s future. White men and natives dealt conveniently at Copeley's. She had been married four times: three of her husbands died of hempen fevers; and the fourth, having been twice condemned, was saved from the noose by Jonathan Wild, who not only managed to bring him off, but to obtain for him the situation of under-turnkey in Newgate. Then her head disappeared suddenly in her hands, and her shoulders shook violently. The blaze, however, was sufficient to reveal to the thief-taker the features of his intended assassin. It was no easy matter to determine her age, for, though she still retained a certain youthfulness of appearance, she had many marks in her countenance, usually indicating the decline of life, but which in her case were, no doubt, the result of constant and severe indisposition. To walk beside him, dressed akin to him, rucksacked and companionable, was bliss in itself; each step she took was like stepping once more across the threshold of heaven. Not content with this, the assailants set fire to the house in half-a-dozen other places; and the progress of the flames was rapid and destructive. But she disapproved more and more of her own mental austerity. "Lost no time on the road—eh!—I didn't expect you till to-morrow at the earliest. She hated living like that. CHAPTER XIX.
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