She seemed indeed to breathe more freely; the cloud of suspicion cleared away from her brow; she felt herself, for once in her life, treated like a fellow-creature.
Imagination! who can paint thy power; or reflect the evanescent tints of hope fostered by thee?
A despondent gloom had long obscured Maria's horizon--now the sun broke forth, the rainbow appeared, and every prospect was fair.

Horror still reigned in the darkened cells, suspicion lurked in the passages, and whispered along the walls.

The yells of men possessed, sometimes, made them pause, and wonder that they felt so happy, in a tomb of living death.

They even chid themselves for such apparent insensibility; still the world contained not three happier beings.

And Jemima, after again patrolling the passage, was so softened by the air of confidence which breathed around her, that she voluntarily began an account of herself..