But this year things have gone dead against me; and my bad luck made me savage somehow, so that I went deeper than I've been before, thinking to get back what I'd lost." "O, father, father! how could you, and with another man's money ?" "Don't give me any of your preaching," the bailiff answered gloomily; "I can get enough of that at Malsham Chapel if I want it.

It's in your power to pull me through this business if you choose." "How can I do that, father ?" "A couple of hundred pounds will set me square.

I don't say there hasn't been more taken, first and last; but that would do it.

Stephen Whitelaw would lend me the money--give it me, indeed, for it comes to that--the day he gets your consent to be his wife." "And you'd sell me to him for two hundred pounds, father ?" the girl asked bitterly.
"I don't want to go to gaol." "And if you don't get the money from Stephen, what will happen ?" "I can't tell you that to a nicety.

Penal servitude for life, most likely.