there you
have me,"
he
muttered
to
himself,
in a tone
so
melancholy
that I
wished I
had not
spoken.
"What is
the loss
of fortune
to the
loss of
peace of
mind?" I
continued.
"In
short,"said
he,
playfully,
"you will
make it
out that
there is
no harm in
a man's
being
plunged
over-head-and-ears
in a debt
he cannot
remove."
"Much
depends, I
think, on
how it was
incurred,
and what
efforts
are made
to redeem
it--at
least, if
the
sufferer


