The String of Pearls (1850), p. 497

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roughly searched, and you and I and Simmons here will go with Mrs. Lovett."
"And I too," said the cook. "We can go to Sir Richard's afterwards."
"So we can—so we can. Come on, now."
"You will deliver me up to the mob," screamed Mrs. Lovett. "Mercy!

TODD IN NEWGATE, TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
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Mercy! I shall be torn limb from limb. Oh, what a death! Are you men or fiends that you will condemn me to it? Mercy!—mercy!"
This sudden passion of Mrs. Lovett's was the very thing the officers would have desired, inasmuch as it materially helped to deceive the mob, and to prevent any idea upon the part of the infuriated people, that there was any collusion between the officers and Mrs. Lovett, for the purpose of getting her safely to prison.