Or, if you can do it yourself, and would prefer the library as a pledge, you shall select such books as will suit your own reading and would cover your advance in cash any day you choose to put them up to auction, if I should fail to redeem them.

Or, I would give my notes of hand that I could meet by sales of produce or of land.

If I had the benefit of your personal counsel, we could contrive something between us, I am sure, but I have no such aid about me.

The difficulty in itself is really light, but to me, under present circumstances, is quite formidable.

If at your earliest convenience you acquaint me with your mind, you will much oblige.
"I have another trouble of a personal nature.