I spoke, but my accents and air sufficiently denoted my embarrassments:-- "I am going to solicit a favour which my situation makes of the highest importance to me, and which I hope it will be easy for you, sir, to grant.

It is not an alms, but a loan, that I seek; a loan that I will repay the moment I am able to do it.

I am going to the country, but have not wherewith to pay my passage over Schuylkill, or to buy a morsel of bread.

May I venture to request of you, sir, the loan of sixpence?
As I told you, it is my intention to repay it." I delivered this address, not without some faltering, but with great earnestness.

I laid particular stress upon my intention to refund the money.