"I am at the end of my tether.

I shall have to leave the regiment." "Nonsense!" Lisle replied.
"It is true.

I owe a lot of money to that fellow Sanders.

He has bought up all my chits, and this is a note from him, saying that he has waited two or three months, but must now request me to pay up without further delay.

Besides my pay, I have only eighteen hundred pounds, that was left me by an old aunt; but that will barely cover what I owe.