Before
emerging from the jail to stand on the scaffold with her three-month-old baby,had prepared
herself as best she could for the pain and humiliation of the ordeal facing her. Once upon the
scaffold, however, she suffers to such an extent that she fears she will go mad:
The unhappy culprit sustained herself as best a woman might, under
the heavy weight of a thousand unrelenting eyes, all fastened upon her, and concentrated at her
bosom. It was almost intolerable to be borne . . . . under the leaden infliction which it was
her doom to endure, she felt, at moments,...
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