The String of Pearls (1850), p. 225

"You know, Mrs. Ragg, the last you told me of him was that—that Mr.
Todd had said he was mad, you know, and then you went to fetch somebody, and when you came back he was gone; and Mr. Todd told you the next day that poor Tobias ran off at great speed and disappeared. Has anything been heard of him since?"

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"Ah, my dear, alas! alas!"
"Why do you cry alas?—Have you any more sad news to tell me?"
"He was my only son—and all the world and his wife, as the saying is, can't
tell how much I loved him."
Minna Gray clasped her hands, and, while the tears coursed down her young
fair cheeks, she said—
"And I, too, loved him!"