"Fred, you must pay him back at once, whatever it costs you!" "All very well," said I, "but you know I've nothing." "Can't you pawn anything?
can't you get a job of some sort to do?
anything to pay him off.

I shall be miserable as long as you owe him a farthing!" He spoke with a vehemence that quite astonished me.--"You don't mean to say you're going to let yourself stop in his debt ?" he exclaimed, when I did not answer.
"Not a second after I can get the money." "When will you hear from your uncle ?" "To-morrow morning if he writes by return.

But I've no hopes from him." "I suppose it would not do to ask the partners," said Jack.
I was thunderstruck at the very idea.

For Jack to entertain it for a moment only showed how desperately in earnest he was.
We could get no light on the subject, and I had the pleasure of being reminded by Hawkesbury's smile all day long that I was in his power, and saw no way out.
That whole evening Jack and I sat and discussed the situation.

We even rose early, to consult Mr Smith the elder on his return to the lodgings.