Can you guess its nature?
It is the warrant for your arrest, which I have but to touch this bell beside me to have executed on the spot.

Once in the Tolbooth upon this paper, may God help you, for the die is cast!" I must never deny that I was greatly horrified by so much baseness, and much unmanned by the immediacy and ugliness of my danger.

Mr.Symon had already gloried in the changes of my hue; I make no doubt I was now no ruddier than my shirt; my speech besides trembled.
"There is a gentleman in this room," cried I."I appeal to him.

I put my life and credit in his hands." Prestongrange shut his book with a snap.

"I told you so, Symon," said he; "you have played your hand for all it was worth, and you have lost.
Mr.David," he went on, "I wish you to believe it was by no choice of mine you were subjected to this proof.