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Except Eros and Plutus, who seem as usual, and the old Fates, who go on spinning as if nothing had happened, none of us expects to last for another ten years. The sacrifices have dwindled down to nothing. Zeus has put down his eagle. Hera has eaten her peacocks. Apollo's lyre is never heard pawned, no doubt.
It is impossible it should be over if things went right. Bring me my sword and cloak where is my golden chain? MOOR. Sir, I have stolen and pawned it. FIESCO. That I am glad to hear. MOOR. But, how! Are there no more sequins for me? FIESCO. No. You forgot the cloak. MOOR. Ah! I was wrong in pointing out the thief. FIESCO. The tumult comes nearer. Hark! 'Tis not the sound of approbation. Quick!
"You know what happened at the dress rehearsal of 'The Ukelele Girl'? Well, the word's gone around about her chucking the show at the last minute, and it's thumbs down for Tootles. She hadn't a nickel when she came back from your place, and since then she's pawned herself right down to the bone to pay her rent and get a few eats.
The turning-point of Goldsmith's life was reached when Griffiths became security for a new suit of clothes in which that unfortunate hospital-mate examination might be attended. On Griffiths finding that the new suit had been pawned to free the poet's landlady from the bailiffs, he abused him as a sharper and a villain, and threatened to proceed against him by law as a criminal.
She wore the frightened look of a mutinous child. "I I look so foolish in them!" Such heresy caused Mannie to gasp aloud; "You look grand in them," he protested; "don't she, Mabel?" "Sure she does," assented that lady. "And your junk?" demanded Mannie, referring to the jade necklace and the gold-plated bracelets. His eyes opened in sympathy. "You haven't pawned them, have you?"
We have seen, too, that certain persons, mysteriously symbolized as Grapnell & Co., having also thought of reigning in the realm of luck, and being also bent on amusing themselves, no matter how, had brought about a painful change in her family circumstances; whence she had returned home carrying with her, against her inclination, a necklace which she had pawned and some one else had redeemed.
His wife a fat, vulgar-looking, well-preserved woman about forty was arrayed in a dark red 'motor' costume, with hat to match. Both Easton and Ruth whose best clothes had all been pawned to raise the money to pay the poor rate felt very mean and shabby before them.
His master was gone kangaroo hunting for three days. Borrow some of his master's clothes and pawn them, that was too like theft. He would pawn his ring, it would only be for a day or two, and he would not spend a farthing more till he had got it back. He pawned Mr.
That he would force her to return to him for any other purpose she did not believe. He had no legal hold upon her such as an Englishman has upon his wife and, as he had pawned everything of value she possessed and most of her clothes, she could be of no further use to him, except by applying to her father or to her friends for pecuniary relief.
The owner of the house said that they had lived in this way since May, 1843, had gradually sold or pawned everything that they had, and had still never paid any rent. The magistrate assigned them 1 pound from the poor-box. I am far from asserting that all London working-people live in such want as the foregoing three families.