I have had the privilege of rousing universal dissatisfaction; the shareholders of the Great Western Landed Company Association have met, made speeches, and passed resolutions against me.

I should not much care for that if I saw a way of getting clear of the whole affair.

But the deceased has managed so cleverly that I am tied down like a nigger in a slave-ship.
Immense sums have been embarked in this atrocious speculation.

If I make known its nature, I am sure that they will find a way of making me pay the whole sum at which my late uncle put down his name; and how to do that without ruining not myself alone, but probably also the firm of Fink and Becker, I can't yet see.
"Meantime I don't want to hear your opinion as to what I ought to do.

It can be of no use to me, for I know it already.