The String of Pearls (1850), p. 521

myself most secure—when I had made every preparation to leave England for ever! Oh, dolt that I was, not to have done so long ago, when I had half—ay,
when I had only a quarter of the sum that I should this day have fled with! In my dreams I have seen myself as I am now, and the sight has shaken me

TODD GOES TO TAKE HIS TRIAL.{Figure}

but I never thought to be so in reality. Is there any hope for me? What do they know?—what can they know?"
Upon these questions, Todd paused in his uneasy walk in the cell, and sat down upon the low stool to think. His head rested upon his breast, and he was profoundly still.