But to whom should he appeal?
"He is a cold man," said he to himself, as one name did occur to him, "very cold, almost unfeeling; but he is honest and just." And then again he sat and thought.

"Yes, he is honest and just; and what should I want better than honesty and justice ?" And then, shuddering as he resolved, he did resolve that he would send for this honest and just man.

He would send for him; or, perhaps better still, go to him.
At any rate, he would tell him the whole truth of his grief, and then act as the cold, just man should bid him.
But he need not do this yet--not quite yet.

So at least he said to himself, falsely.

If a man decide with a fixed decision that his tooth should come out, or his leg be cut off, let the tooth come out or the leg be cut off on the earliest possible opportunity.