Its continuance convinced me of my mistake with but too much certainty.
Every morning my hopes were disappointed.

At length I abandoned all idea of escaping: I resigned myself to my fate, and only expected Liberty when She came the Companion of Death.
My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an Actress, advanced the period of my labour.

In solitude and misery, abandoned by all, unassisted by Art, uncomforted by Friendship, with pangs which if witnessed would have touched the hardest heart, was I delivered of my wretched burthen.

It came alive into the world; But I knew not how to treat it, or by what means to preserve its existence.
I could only bathe it with tears, warm it in my bosom, and offer up prayers for its safety.

I was soon deprived of this mournful employment: The want of proper attendance, my ignorance how to nurse it, the bitter cold of the dungeon, and the unwholesome air which inflated its lungs, terminated my sweet Babe's short and painful existence.