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Evidence to this effect was given in 1844; but Mammon was too busy to attend to it. These wretched creatures, when they have pawned their own clothes and bedding, will use as substitutes the very garments they are making. So Lord 's coat has been seen covering a group of children blotched with small-pox. The Rev.
Needing money, he obtained it by a trick that was not very honorable, though in full accord with the ethics of those times. He pawned to the Jews two chests which he said were treasure chests, filled with gold. Six hundred marks were received, and when the chests were afterwards opened they proved to be filled with sand. This was merely a good joke to poet and chronicler.
Not a bed, nor a blanket, nor a chair, nor any article or utensil of furniture whatsoever, had been left; all, all, was in the hands of the remorseless pawn-brokers, as the sufferers showed me by their certificates pawned, too, for such pitiful sums as at once attested the oppressive and disgraceful system of avarice upon which those establishments are conducted.
From the midsummer of 1780, when the "Journal to Mira" comes to an end, to the February or March of the following year, there is a blank in the Biography which the son was unable to fill. At the time the fragment of Diary closes, Crabbe was apparently at the very end of his resources. He had pawned all his personal property, his books and his surgical implements, and was still in debt.
It was one of the points concerning which they had been especially enjoined to complain, that the English cavalry, converted into highwaymen by want of pay, had been plundering the peasantry, and we have seen that Thomas Wilkes had "pawned his carcase" to provide for their temporary relief.
"I believe," Bristow spoke up again, "what the fellow said tonight was true substantially true." "Do you?" retorted Braceway, thoroughly non-committal. "Anyway there remains the problem of who pawned the Withers emeralds and diamonds this afternoon." "It may not be a problem," said Braceway. "It may be that they weren't the Withers stuff at all." "Ah! I hadn't thought of that."
Liza's enjoyment of the tragedy had not been exhausted with the occasion, for now she laughed at the humors of her own narrative. "But those days are gone," she continued. "I met Robbie last night, and I says, says I, 'Have you pawned your dancing shoes, Robbie, as you're so glum? And that's what he is, save when he's tipsy, and then what do ye think the maizelt creature does?"
"You say," Bristow changed the course of questioning, "she pawned her jewels twice. How did she do that? Where did she get the money to redeem them after the first pawning?" "I don't know. I never could find out." "You had no six or seven thousand dollars to give her for that purpose, as I understand it?" "No." "Where did she get it, then?"
Yes, sir, a thousand pounds, by G-d! promised to pay me in three weeks; and when I was coming back, and asked him for my money, he laughed at me, and ordered his servant not to let me in. And now he has sent out his three daughters to me pawned them off upon me, laughing, I suppose, in his sleeve, as he did when he cheated me before.
He caused Abel to sell cattle and mortgage Deinol for what it was worth and to give him all the money he received therefrom; he swore such hot love for Catherine that the woman pawned her furniture for his sake. Intrigued that such scant fruit had come up from his sowings, Ben thought of further ways of stablishing himself.
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