Nevertheless, I will acquaint you with a rule of law applicable to the contingency you put.
'_Quod non habet in cere, luet in corpore_' is a decree of the Star-Chamber; meaning, for I do not expect you to understand Latin, that he who cannot pay in purse shall pay in person.

Aware of the alternative, you will make your choice.

And you may thank me that I have not adjudged you at once--as I have the power--to three months within the Wood Street Compter." "Ah, Sir Giles! what an atrocious idea.

You are worse than a savage to talk of such a loathsome prison to me.

Ah! mon Dieu! what is to happen to me! would I were back again in my lovely Bordeaux!" "You will have an opportunity of revisiting that fine city, Madame; for you will no longer be able to carry on your calling here." "Ciel! Sir Giles! what mean you ?" "I mean, Madame, that you are disabled from keeping any tavern for the space of three years." Madame Bonaventure clasped her hands together, and screamed aloud.
"In pity, Sir Giles!--In pity!" she cried.
The inexorable knight shook his head.