Chapter 34: Tobias Has a Mind Diseased

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​‌​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​⁠With a bottle of claret upon the table between them, Colonel Jeffery and his old friend sat over the fire in the bed-room devoted to the use of poor Tobias Ragg. Alas! poor boy, kindness and wealth that now surrounded him came late in the day. Before he first crossed the threshold of Sweeney Todd's odious abode, what human heart could have more acutely felt genuine kindness than Tobias's, but his