The String of Pearls (1850), p. 606

"Oh, Sir Richard, only tell me how I may best secure this treasure against the machinations of that monster in human shape."
"Nay, now, Mr. Ingestrie," said Sir Richard, "do not fall into the other extreme, and make too much of this danger. We are very apt to pet some peril, until we make it to our imagination assume a much larger shape than really belongs to it. I hope that Todd will be in custody again soon."
"Is it likely, sir?"
"I fancy so. From this day I abandon all other objects and pursuits, and devote myself to that task alone.''
"Then there is a hope," said Johanna.
"Yes," added Sir Richard. "My impression is that he has no money, and that I shall soon apprehend him; but if, unknown to me, he has any secret funds, he may make an attempt to leave the kingdom, and so foil me."
"And if he does ?"
"I follow him, for I am determined that sooner or later, dead or alive, Todd shall be given up to the law."
"But you will advise us what to do," said Mark Ingestrie. "In your experience you can suggest to us the best mode of proceeding in this emergency."
"I have been thinking of that as I came along, and my advice is that you leave London immediately. I do not think that the danger, admitting that there is any at all, is immediate. Todd for some days will be far too intent upon evading pursuit and recognition to think of much else, besides his personal safety, so that you will have ample time to leave."
"We will do so." said Johanna, u at once. Where would you advise us to go?"
"There is a little fishing village on the south coast, called Brighthelmstone. It lies in a pleasant enough valley stretching to the sea. There you can remain quite unsuspected of Todd, and enjoy the fair sea breezes that make the place delightful, without a thought of danger, for it is not that way he will go, as the place is not a port from which he could take shipping if he wished to leave England ; and if he did not wish to leave at all, nothing could be further from his thoughts than going so far from London, and the spot upon which all his revenge could alone be attempted to be gratified."
"We will go," said Johanna, appealingly looking at Mark Ingestrie as she spoke.
"Certainly," he replied.
"Well, then," said Sir Richard, "since that is so far settled, I have a favour to ask of you both."
"You have but to name it," said Ingestrie. "You ought rather to say that you have a command to give us both."
"Yes," said Johanna, "that is so."
"No. If I thought that, I should not like to mention it. But I appeal to your candour to say 'yes,' or 'no,' to the request, according as you really feel inclined when you hear it. You know how anxious Todd has been to take the life of the poor lad, Tobias, who has suffered so much at his hands."
"Oh, yes—yes," said Johanna.
"Well. Have you any objection to take him with you?"
"None in the least," cried Mark.
Johanna turned to him with a smile, as she said—
"Mark, I thank you with all my heart for that ready reply and acquiescence with the proposal of Sir Richard Blunt, and I echo it by likewise saying, 'None in the least.'"
"You have met the proposal as I anticipated you both would," said the magistrate, "or I should not have made it. You will find poor Tobias one of the most gentle and inoffensive of beings; but his nature has been so acted upon by Todd, that it would drive him to the verge of madness if he thought that the villain were at large; so I do not wish that he should know as much until it can be coupled with information of his recapture."