For these reasons he resolved to discontinue the expence; and there appeared but two possible ways to extricate him clearly out of it; --and these were, either to make it an irrevocable law never more to lend his steed upon any application whatever, --or else be content to ride the last poor devil, such as they had made him, with all his aches and infirmities, to the very end of the chapter.

There appeared but two possible ways to extricate him from this expense; either to make it a rule to never lend out his steed again - or else to be content to ride the last poor devil, with all his aches and infirmities, to the very end of the chapter.
