Tozer would manage it somehow; and it was quite clear that it would not do to tell his wife of it just at present.
On the 21st of that month of February, however, he did receive a reminder that the bill and all concerning it had not merely been a farce.

This was a letter from Mr.Sowerby, dated from Chaldicotes, though not bearing the Barchester post-mark, in which that gentleman suggested a renewal--not exactly of the old bill, but of a new one.
It seemed to Mark that the letter had been posted in London.

If I give it entire, I shall, perhaps, most quickly explain its purport: Chaldicotes,--20th February, 185--.
MY DEAR MARK, "Lend not thy name to the money-dealers, for the same is a destruction and a snare." If that be not in the Proverbs, it ought to be.

Tozer has given me certain signs of his being alive and strong this cold weather.

As we can neither of us take up that bill for L400 at the moment, we must renew it, and pay him his commission and interest, with all the rest of his perquisites, and pickings, and stealings--from all which, I can assure you, Tozer does not keep his hands as he should do.