The String of Pearls (1850), p. 508

"Yes. I look this from Todd's escritoir myself, and they are yours and Johanna's. Will you permit me always to call you Johanna?"
"Oh, yes—yes. Do so. All who love me call me Johanna,"
"Very well. This String of Peals, I have ascertained, is worth a sufficient sum to place you both veiy far above all the primary exigences of life. It will be necessary to produce them at the trial of Sweeney Todd, but after that event they will be handed to you to do what you please with them, when you can realise them at at once, and be happy enough with the proceeds."
"If my poor friend, Thornhill," sighed Mark Ingestrie, "could but have lived to see this day !"
"That, indeed, would have been a joy," said Johanna.
"Yes," said the magistrate; " but the grave has closed on his poor remains—at least, I may say so figuratively. He was one of Todd's victims, one of his numerous victims; for I do believe that, for a long time, scarcely a week passed that did not witness some three or four murders in that man's shop."
"Horrible!"
"You may well use that expression, in speaking of the career of Sweeney Todd. It has been most horrible; but there cannot be a doubt of his expiating his crimes upon the scaffold, together with his partner in guilt, Mrs. Lovett."
Mark Ingestrie gave a shudder as that woman's name was mentioned, for it put him in mind of the cellar where he had lived so long, and where it was only by the most good fortune that he had not terminated his career.
Before they could say any more, one of the officers in attendance upon Sir Richard, announced Colonel Jeffery.
"Ah, that is your dreadful military rival," said Sir Richard to Ingestrie.
"That is the gentleman whom you saw in the garden of the Temple with Johanna."
"I have much to thank him for. His conduct to Johanna has been most noble."
The colonel smiled when he saw Mark Ingestrie and Johanna, for he well knew, from private information he had got from the magistrate, that Mark Ingestrie and Mrs. Lovett's cook were identical; and holding out his hand to the young man, he said—
"Accept of my best and sincerest wishes, Mr. Ingestrie."
"And you, sir," said Mark; ''accept of my best thanks. Our gratitude is largely due to you, sir."
"I am quite repaid by this very happy result; and I have the pleasure of informing you, Sir Richard, that poor Tobias is very much better indeed."
"Which I am rejoiced to hear," said Sir Richard. "And now, my dear Johanna, it is time for you to go home. You will hear from me in the morning, for I intend to do myself the pleasure of calling upon your father, and explaining all to him; for there are some circumstances that he is yet in ignorance of, and particularly concerning Mr. Ingestrie."
"I will walk with you to your door, Johanna," said Mark rising and tottering.
"No" said Sir Richard Blunt; "that must not be to-night. Do not let him, Johanna. He is by far too weak and unwell to do anything of the kind. A calm and long night's rest here will do him a world of good. Business prevents me from leaving the office; but I daresay the colonel will see Johanna in safety."
"With pleasure," said Colonel Jeffery, " if Mr. Ingestrie has no objection to my doing so."
"Sir," said Mark, "there is no one in all the world that I would more cheerfully see protecting my Johanna. I feel that I am in too great a state of exhaustion to go out. I leave her to your care, sir."
"That is right," said Sir Richard Blunt. "Now, good-night, Johanna, and God bless you. You will see me in the morning, recollect.''
Mark Ingestrie took a parting embrace of Johanna, and then she went off with the colonel, who, on their road home, told her how he and Arabella had got so