CHAPTER CXIX.
THE CRIMINALS IN NEWGATE.—TODD’S ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.
It is grievous to turn from the contemplation of so pleasant and grateful a scene as that that was taking place at the old spectacle-maker’s house, to dive into the interior of Newgate. But thither it is that now we would conduct the reader.
The state of mind that Todd was in after his arrest, was one that such a man with such strong passions as he had was exceedingly unlikely to come to. It is difficult to describe it, but if we say that he was mentally stunned, we shall be as near the mark as language will permit us to be.
He walked, and looked, and spoke very much like a man in a dream; and it is really doubtful whether, for some hours, he comprehended the full measure of the calamity that had befallen him on his app
