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If you've a grain of grit left in you, you'll write something that he will be glad to have and to pay for. Pawn that ring on your finger and get yourself a good breakfast" it was my mother's wedding-ring, the only piece of dispensable property I had not parted with "she won't mind helping you. But nobody else is going to except yourself." She looked at her watch. "I must be off." She turned again.
"What do you want?" the old woman said severely, coming into the room and, as before, standing in front of him so as to look him straight in the face. "I've brought something to pawn here," and he drew out of his pocket an old-fashioned flat silver watch, on the back of which was engraved a globe; the chain was of steel. "But the time is up for your last pledge.
"Don't you think so, Horace? People can pawn clothes, can't they?" The boy nodded. His eyes were fixed on her. "I looked across at him," Mrs. Errington continued, "and made a sign to him to come round to meet me by the other end, near the Row. I held up my purse so that he might understand me." "What did he do?" "He turned away and hurried off among the trees." "Ah!" "Do you know, Horace," Mrs.
Then there were the disappointments occasioned by the letters which she received from people who she thought would have engaged her, saying they were sorry, but that they had seen some one whom they liked better. Another week passed and Esther had to pawn her clothes to get money for her train fare to London, and to keep the registry office supplied with stamps.
"I went to the Brevord and registered under the name of Waring. After I had had breakfast, I went straight to Abrahamson's pawnshop. It's the only pawnshop in town. I told him I was looking for some stolen jewelry and I expected that an attempt might be made to pawn it with him. He agreed to let me wait there, well concealed by the heavy hangings at the back of his shop.
But because it is not a true tool, because it gives the man no grip on the creative energies of society, it is, with all the rest of his self-respect, at the mercy of the thing called the sack. When he gets the sack from the water-works, it is only too probable that he will have to pawn his old cherry-briar. 'Cos he might set the water-works on fire.
Thirdly, as he seems hard up for money, he'll have to pawn anything he may have left that's worth pawning, and he can do that best and most secretly in a large town." Poor Sir Thomas and his lady felt a shiver through their hearts at the matter-of-fact way in which these words were uttered. "You don't think, then," asked the baronet, "that he has started in any vessel for America or Australia?"
"So it would, but I need the money. Of course, if you haven't got the money " "I have that amount of money," said Walter, "but I haven't got it to spare. I might need it." "Then all you need to do is to sell the watch or pawn it. You could sell it for fifty dollars without trouble." "Why don't you do that?" asked Walter shrewdly. "Because I haven't the time. I want, if possible, to go on to-night.
Women sell or pawn their clothing, often sending their little children to dispose of these articles, while they remain half clad at home to await the daily drawings and receive the prize they fondly hope to obtain, but which rarely, if ever, comes. "Children learn early to indulge this vice, and lie and steal in order to obtain money to gratify it.
The poor lady, seated with her companion at the chessboard of matrimony, had but just pushed forward her one little white pawn upon an empty square, when the Black Knight, that cares nothing for castles or kings or queens, swooped down upon her and swept her from the larger board of life.
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