The String of Pearls (1850). p. 385

He wanted sadly to get a peep at what Charley was doing.
Now, poor Johanna, fortunately at that moment, was only sitting before the little miserable fire, holding her face in her hands, and deeply thinking of the once happy past. She had brought out from beneath the counter the sleeve of a sailor's jacket, which she had found upon her former examination of the shop,

SIR RICHARD GIVES JOHANNA PISTOLS FOR HER PROTECTION,{Figure}

and after sprinkling it with some tears, for she fully believed it must have belonged to Mark Ingestrie, she had hidden it again.
And now as she sat in that house of murder all alone, she was picturing to herself every tone and look of her lover when he had first told her that he loved her before, as she might have said in the words of the old song—