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And there sat Peter, with only a nickel and a couple of pennies in his pocket, and the rent for his room two weeks over-due, and his landlady lying in wait in the hallway like an Indian with a tomahawk. Peter objected, what about all those bad things in his early record, Pericles Priam and the Temple of Jimjambo, which had ruined him as a witness in the Goober case.
His young wife had a small income of her own, a distinct and unusual advantage, and the subscription committee hoped that they might not be eternally driving over the country to get somebody's fifty cents that had been over-due for eight months, but might take their onerous duties a little more easily. "It does seem as if our ministers were the poorest lot!" complained Mrs. Robinson.
In fair weather and foul the stately figure and sorrowful eyes of Mother Clemm were to be seen upon the streets of New York as she went about offering the narrow rolls of manuscript for sale as fast as they were finished, or trying to collect the little, over-due checks from those already sold and published.
As Eugenia took him he gave a whimpering cry and clutched her with his little hands before he nestled into the lace at her bosom. Some hours later, while Eugenia awaited Dudley in the dining-room, Miss Chris came in to see that his late supper was in preparation. "The train is over-due," she said, with a glance at the clock. "He will be hungry when he gets in. He always is."
She remembered hearing Rob come into the house swearing only the day before he was taken ill and it had been because he had met on the door-step a collector of the rent which was long over-due and must be paid. She had no money to pay it, none to pay the servants' wages, none to pay the household bills, none to pay for the monthly hire of the brougham!
The Church, too, may have a mortgage upon his house over-due; and woe betide him if he should undertake a crusade against the Church. This is a string that the Church can pull upon which is strong enough to overawe government itself.
His life was, with difficulty, saved from the brutal soldiery infuriated at his inability to pay them, except in the over-due securities of the Holland cities by the exertions of the officers who still regarded him with veneration and affection. Crossing the Rhine at Orsoy, he disbanded his army and betook himself, almost alone, to Holland.
By all laws of finance, by all signs and omens, a serious reaction from the saturnalia of the last few years was already over-due. He had felt it, without alarm at first, for the men of the West laughed him to scorn and refused to shorten sail. They still refused. Perhaps they could not. One thing was certain: he could scarcely manage to take in a single reef on his own account.
The bill is over-due; everything is in order, it would be vain to resist. They have just explained all that to me." "But they cannot keep you long in prison. It is impossible." "Five years, if I do not pay. As I'll never be able to do so, my fate is certain." "Oh! what a misfortune! and not to be able to do anything!" said Cephyse, hiding her face in her hands.
"Had to hire him, eh? Best consulting engineer in the city. And he held out for a settlement," rallied Blake. "You were one of the party?" "Transitman." "Then apply to my auditor. He has your pay-check waiting for you." "How about interest? It's two years over-due." "I never allow interest on such accounts." Blake took out his cigar and looked at his antagonist, his jaw out- thrust.
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