At any rate, I've got the part pretty well by 'eart--you see that, don't you?
Well, hour hultimatum about the business is this.

Forty thousand pounds paid down on the nail, half to the governor, and half to your 'umble servant, before the end of this year; a couple of thousand more in hand for the year's hexpenses--and--and--a couple of hundred or so now at once before I leave you; for to tell the truth we're run huncommonly dry just at the present moment." And then Aby drew his breath and paused for an answer.
Poor Sir Thomas was now almost broken down.

His head swam round and round, and he felt that he was in a whirlpool from which there was no escape.

He had heard the sum named, and knew that he had no power of raising it.

His interest in the estate was but for his life, and that life was now all but run out.