Your sight, I believe, is too bad to swear easily to your own signature; but that is quite enough.

Now, I have laid this case before our governor, Lord C----, and he went so far as to say that, under the painful circumstances of the case, if you were to refund the money, the bank might let the matter drop; but that, otherwise, it would be their most painful duty to prosecute." "I refund the money!" laughed Hawker; "you are playing with me, sir.
Prosecute the dog; I will come and see him hung! Ha! ha!" "It will be a terrible thing if we prosecute the utterer of these cheques," said the manager.
"Why ?" said Hawker.

"By-the-bye, you know who he is, don't you?
Tell me who it is ?" "Your own son, Mr.Hawker," said the manager, almost in a whisper.
Hawker rose and glared at them with such a look of deadly rage that they shrank from him appalled.

Then, he tottered to the mantelpiece and leant against it, trying to untie his neckcloth with feeble, trembling fingers.
"Open your confounded window there, Rollox," cried the lawyer, starting up.

"Where's the wine?
Look sharp, man!" Hawker waved to him impatiently to sit down, and then said, at first gasping for breath, but afterwards more quietly: "Are you sure it was he that brought those cheques ?" "Certainly, sir," said the manager.