It is highly disagreeable.

I would give my hand off--I mean I would give a hundred pound down, to have nothing to do with it.
And, situated as we are, we must at once take action.

There is here no choice.

You must at once quit this country, and get to France, or Holland, or, indeed, to Madagascar.' 'There may be two words to that,' said I.
'Not so much as one syllable!' he retorted.

'Here is no room for argument.