Excerpt from Black but Comely, or the Adventures of Jane Lee, Vol. 1 of 3 Why should he trouble himself about the culprit, a journeyman tailor, who had stabbed his wife in a fit of drunken ferocity, and been convicted on the evidence of his sister-in-law 7 He could not look along the whitewashed passages of the prison, nor into the bare blank cell, where the doomed man cowered and Shook before that awful unknown to which he was gliding so smooth and Swift and sure, upheld, it may be, for a moment at a time, by the presence of two robust turnkeys, who guarded him, as a timid passenger feels upheld in a storm by companionship with some stout Skipper and his mate; yet now and again stung to agony at the contrast between their situation and his own. I'vould it have dulled the pieman's enterprise, or the appetites of his customers, to see the gray drawn face. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.