What strange shapes the patches of yellow
light take, and lose again, all in a moment! No peace and quiet
for me, look where I may. The candle keeps flickering, and the
very sky itself is restless to-night.
"'To bed! to bed!' as Lady Macbeth says. I wonder, by-the-by,
what Lady Macbeth would have done in my position? She would have
killed somebody when her difficulties first began. Probably
Armadale.
"Friday morning.--A night's rest, thanks again to my Drops.
I went to breakfast in better spirits, and received a morning
welcome in the shape of a letter from Mrs. Oldershaw.
"My silence has produced its effect on Mother Jezebel. She
attributes it to the right cause, and she shows her claws at
last. If I am not in a position to pay my note of hand for thirty
pounds, which is due on Tuesday next, her lawyer is instructed to
'take the usual course.' _If_ I am not in a position to pay it!
Why, when I have settled to-day with my landlord, I shall have
barely five pounds left! There is not the shadow of a prospect
between now and Tuesday of my earning any money; and I don't
possess a friend in this place who would trust me with sixpence.
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