My credit with the money-lenders was at an end; my friends had all turned their backs on me.

I must either take the money or disgrace my family.

If there is a man living who is sincerely attached to his family, I am that man.

I took the money.
"Conceive your position as my aunt (I say nothing of myself), if I had adopted the other alternative.

Turned out of the Jockey Club, turned out of Tattersalls', turned out of the betting-ring; in short, posted publicly as a defaulter before the noblest institution in England, the Turf--and all for want of five hundred pounds to stop the mouth of the greatest brute I know of, Alfred Hardyman! Let me not harrow your feelings (and mine) by dwelling on it.