The responsibility is crushing.
Should I not do more wisely to take five hundred pounds, and intrust the remainder with you, Mr.Romaine ?' 'If you are sure you will not want it,' answered Romaine.
'I am far from sure of that,' cried I.

'In the first place, as a philosopher.

This is the first time I have been at the head of a large sum, and it is conceivable--who knows himself ?--that I may make it fly.
In the second place, as a fugitive.

Who knows what I may need?
The whole of it may be inadequate.

But I can always write for more.' 'You do not understand,' he replied.