"Wait a moment and I'll go with you." "My child, there is not a moment to lose!" he replied excitedly.
"I did not read all the letter," she returned; "but I think he does not want the money till the end of the week." "And what better shall we be then ?" he rejoined, almost angrily.

"The man looks to me, and where will he find himself on Monday?
Let us be as honest at least as we can." "But we may be able to borrow it--or--who knows what might happen ?" "There it is, my dear! Who knows what?
We can be sure of nothing in this world." "And what in the next, father ?" The minister was silent.

If God was anywhere, he was here as much as there! That was not the matter in hand, however.

He owed the money, and was bound to let the man know that he could not pay it by the end of the week.

Without another word to Dorothy, he walked from the house, and, like a man afraid of cowardice, went straight at the object of his dismay.