The String of Pearls (1850), p. 201

CHAPTER XLI.
TODD'S VISION.

TOBIAS RESTORED TO HIS SENSES BY MINNA'S ASSISTANCE.

When they had left, Todd remained for some minutes in an attitude of thought.
"Is this an accident?" he said, "or is it but the elaboration of some deep design to entrap me. What am I to think?"

TOBIAS RESTORED TO HIS SENSES BY MINNA'S ASSISTANCE.{Figure}

Todd was an imaginative man quite. He was just the individual to think over the affair until he made something of it, very different from what it really was, and yet there was some hope that the matter was no more than what it appeared to be, by the character of the parties who had come upon the mission, it anything serious had come to the ears of the authorities, he thought,