The String of Pearls (1850), p. 641

And now, as he had done before, he kept his arms outstretched before him to prevent him from injuring himself against any of the walls or the abrupt turnings in the passages between his own house and old St. Dunstan's. He stooped, likewise, in order that he might not strike his head against the roof at in places where it was very low, and rough, and rugged.

TODD TURNS THE TABLES ON THE TWO SHARPERS, AND ESCAPES.{Figure}

Once only Todd got a little bewildered, and did not, well know his way, and then he ignited one of the matches, and by its small light he saw in a moment which way he was to go.
"All is well," he said, and he rushed on; but yet he began to be a little surprised that he heard no noise from the house—no sound of the explosion; and inclining his ear to the ground, he stopped in one of the old vaults to listen.