"I've been remarkable easy with you, and now"-- "Easy!" sharply ejaculated Wilkinson.

"Yes; as the angler who plays his trout.

You've already received fifteen hundred dollars of the sum out of which I was swindled, and with that I should think both you and your principal might be content.

Go back to him, and say that he is about placing on the camel's back the pound that may break it." "I have before told you," was replied, "that Mr.Carlton has no longer any control in this matter.

It is I who hold your obligations; they have been endorsed to me, and for a valuable consideration; and be assured that I shall exact the whole bond." "If," said Wilkinson, after some moments' reflection, and speaking in a changed voice and with much deliberation, "if you will take my note of hand for the amount of your due-bills, at six months from to-day, I will give it; if not"-- "Preposterous!" returned the man, interrupting him.
"If not," continued Wilkinson, "you can fall back upon the law.