Excerpt from Jack Sheppard, Vol. 3 of 3: A Romance
About an hour after the occurrences at Newgate, the door of the small back-parlour already described at Dollis Hill was opened by Winifred, who, gliding noiselessly across the room, approached a couch, on which was extended a sleeping female, and, gazing anxiously at her pale careworn countenance, murmured, - "Heaven be praised! she still slumbers - slumbers peacefully. The opiate has done its duty. Poor thing! how beautiful she looks! but how like death !"
Deathlike, indeed, was the repose of the sleeper, - deathlike and deep. Its very calmness was frightful.
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