Das Nationaltheater Des Neuen Deutschlands (1849)

You ought to cut your coat according to your cloth, he responded. Much as it will go against my feelings, under the circumstances I am compelled by a prudent regard to my own interests to warn you that, in case your rent is not ready to-morrow, I shall be obliged to trouble you to find another tenement; and furthermore, the rent of this will be raised five dollars a quarter.