The String of Pearls (1850), p. 513

"What do you tell me?"
"Why that there ain't a better girl than Johanna in all the world, and that if all the mothers that ever was or ever will be, had neglected her and set her all their bad examples in the universal world, she would still be the little angel that she is now, and no mistake."

MRS. LOVETT MAKES HER CONFESSION TO THE GOTERNOR OF NEWGATE.{Figure}

"Then she is not from home? It is all a fable?"
"Not quite, Mrs. O. just you trot on now comfortably by the side of me, and I will tell you the whole particulars, and then you will find that there ain't no occasion to go plumping into the river on Johanna's account."
Poor Mrs. Oakley, with delight beaming upon every feature of her face, now listened to Ben while he explained the whole matter to her, as far as he himself was