Seth accompanied her, giving her a weekly allowance which furnished most of the food necessary for the four inmates.

After a time, work failed; their means were reduced.
How Mag toiled and suffered, yielding to fits of desperation, bursts of anger, and uttering curses too fearful to repeat.

When both were supplied with work, they prospered; if idle, they were hungry together.
In this way their interests became united; they planned for the future together.

Mag had lived an outcast for years.

She had ceased to feel the gushings of penitence; she had crushed the sharp agonies of an awakened conscience.