"Once for all they shall know whom they have got to deal with. I can give them a fortnight,--no more. If they don't see their madness before the end of that time, I must have hands from Ireland. I believe it's Slickson's doing,--confound him and his dodges! He thought he was overstocked; so he seemed to yield at first, when the deputation came to him,--and of course, he only confirmed them in their folly, as he meant to do. That's where it spread from."
'Once for all, they shall know whom they have got to deal with. I can give them a fortnight. If they don't see their madness before the end of that time, I must have hands from Ireland.'