It hampered me for years; and in the end I know I must have paid it twice over.

I might have pleaded that I was under age when he got my signature, but it would have been scarcely honourable to do so." "And you never profited by the transaction ?" "Never by a sixpence.

It was done for Dawkes's accommodation, not mine.
He ought to have paid it, you say?
My dear, he is a man of straw, and never had fifteen hundred pounds of his own in his life." "Does Lord Hartledon know of this?
I wonder he has him here." "I did not mention it at the time; and the thing's past and done with.

I only tell you now to give you an idea of the nature of my embarrassments and scrapes.

Not one in ten has really been incurred for myself: they only fall upon me.