The String of Pearls (1850), p. 590

"Very, by the goodness of providence," said Lupin.
"Amen!" said Todd.
"I have just, gentlemen, been buying a portrait of the execrable Todd, and if either of you have happened to see him in London, perhaps you can tell me if it at all like the villain. We frighten our children now, if they misbehave themselves at all, and tell them that Todd is coming to make them into pies, and then they are as quiet as possible. Ha! ha!"
"How funny," said Todd,
"Well," said Lupin, as he looked at the twopenny portrait of Todd, with a pretended critical air, "I don't think it's like him at all. I saw him at Newgate; and my friend here, is more like him than this picture."
"You don't say so, sir," said the landlord.
"He! he!" laughed Todd—"ho! ho!"
How be wished at that moment that he could have taken Lupin by the throat and strangled him!
The brandy was duly discussed, and Lupin having paid for it out of the contents of the old gentleman's purse, took a courteous adieu of the landlord, and with Todd left the house.
"Gracious goodness!" exclaimed Todd, "how could you dream of saying what you did about me at the bar?"
"My good friend, that was for the express purpose of drowning suspicion, for you. I saw the landlady staring at you most fixedly, and so I said it on purpose, for fear she should really begin to think you could be no other than Todd the murderer—the execrable Todd, with whom they frighten the children.
"Oh, well," sad Todd, " don't say anything more about it. I am quite satisfied. Indeed, I am more than satisfied, my dear friend."
"I thought you would be, when you come to think—"
"Oh dear yes."
"You may depend, Todd, that the greatest safety always runs alongside of the greatest danger; and that when you think that your fortunes are at the lowest, you may not frequently be upon the point of a highly favourable change: and it's all by the goodness of Providence."
"Bother you !" said Todd. "I do believe, if you were to live for a hundred years, you would not forget your chapel experience."
"Perhaps not; but I made a good bit of money that way, taking one thing with another, Mr. Todd."

CHAPTER CXXXVIII.
CAEN WOOD AND HAMPSTEAD IN THE OLD TIMES.

In such discourse as this, the precious pair beguiled the way to Highgate, from which they proposed crossing to Hampstead.
Notwithstanding the liberal potations that they had taken at the Alderman s house; and notwithstanding the brandy that had since been discussed, they either of them felt any the worse for the imbibition. Probably, the active exercise they took carried off all bad effects. But, certainly, when they reached Highgate, both Todd and Lupin were hungry.
"Let us turn into the Old Gate-House Tavern," said Lupin.
"Don't you think a more obscure place," suggested Todd, "would be better for us, as we do not by any means court popularity?"
"No; there is more safety in a large place like the Gate House, where plenty of guests are coming and going continually, than in little bit of a public-house where we should be looked at, and scrutinised from top to toe, from the moment we went in to the moment we came out."
"Very good," said Todd. "I think you reason well enough upon the point, and I give in to your better judgment completely. Ah! my good friend, I really don't know what I should have done at all without you."