In privacy
he read and reread it a dozen times, and eventually destroyed it by fire. Casting a hasty glance, as he was about to turn an angle
of the wall, at the great gates and upper windows of the prison, and perceiving
no symptoms of pursuit, Jack proceeded towards the hovel at a very deliberate
pace, carefully assisting his female companion over every obstacle in the road,
and bearing her in his arms when, as was more than once the case, she sank from
fright and exhaustion. Wood had the
advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a
period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the
same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the
shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special
recommendation in female eyes. V.
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