The noose was at its throat when I called for help.

I knew it was in vain to cry 'murder!' in the Mint, so I had recourse to stratagem." "Well, Sir, I must say you deserve some credit for your ingenuity, at all events," replied Jonathan, repressing a smile; "but, before you put out your foot so far, it would have been quite as prudent to consider how you were to draw it back again.

For my own part, I don't see in what way it is to be accomplished, except by the payment of our customary fees.

Do not imagine you can at one moment avail yourself of our excellent regulations (with which you seem sufficiently well acquainted), and the next break them with impunity.

If you assume the character of a debtor for your own convenience, you must be content to maintain it for ours.