"I am to put myself right before the world by incurring debts which I know I can never pay?
When it has been a question of food for the children I have been weak, but I will not be weak in such a matter as this.

I will have no lawyer." She did not regard this denial on his part as very material, though she would fain have followed Mr.Walker's advice had she been able; but when, later in the day, he declared that the police should fetch him, then her spirit gave way.

Early in the morning he had seemed to assent to the expediency of going into Silverbridge on the Thursday, and it was not till after he had worked himself into a rage about the proposed attorney, that he utterly refused to make the journey.

During the whole day, however, his state was such as almost to break his wife's heart.

He would do nothing.