I have often wondered even at my own hardiness another way, that when all my companions were surprised and fell so suddenly into the hand of justice, and that I so narrowly escaped, yet I could not all this while enter into one serious resolution to leave off this trade, and especially considering that I was now very far from being poor; that the temptation of necessity, which is generally the introduction of all such wickedness, was now removed; for I had near #500 by me in ready money, on which I might have lived very well, if I had thought fit to have retired; but I say, I had not so much as the least inclination to leave off; no, not so much as I had before when I had but #200 beforehand, and when I had no such frightful examples before my eyes as these were. From hence 'tis evident to me, that when once we are hardened in crime, no fear can affect us, no example give us any warning.
Je me suis souvent étonnée mêmement sur mon propre endurcissement en une autre façon, que regardant comment tous mes compagnons se faisaient surprendre et tombaient si soudainement dans les mains de la justice, pourtant je ne pouvais en aucun temps entrer dans la sérieuse résolution de cesser ce métier; d'autant qu'il faut considérer que j'étais maintenant très loin d'être pauvre, que la tentation de nécessité qui est la générale introduction de cette espèce de vice m'était maintenant ôtée, que j'avais près de 500£ sous la main en argent liquide, de quoi j'eusse pu vivre très bien si j'eusse cru bon de me retirer; mais dis-je, je n'avais pas tant que jadis, quand je n'avais que 200£ d'épargne, et point de spectacles aussi effrayants devant les yeux.