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I want money, and I shall take the crust from the mouth of the starving, the pennies from the poor-box, the last cent of the poor, the vessels of the altar, anything and everything, for my cause. How many times has our struggle gone down in blood and shame because we let our foolish hearts, with their humanity, their faith, their sense of honor, their ridiculous pride, rule us.
"And here is something to put in the poor-box," answered Sarrion with his twisted smile. "By my soul," he exclaimed, when they were left alone, "this place reeks of hypocrisy." He looked round the walls with a raised eyebrow.
"A bad end," concurred the magical echo, its accent and intonation eerily reproducing those of the gamekeeper. Then: "Whose wife stole the key of the poor-box?" inquired the spirit voice, and finally: "When are they going to burn you?" At that Don succumbed to uncontrollable laughter, and Paul had much ado to preserve his gravity.
We shall treat the person you send us in exchange like a gentleman and an honest man, as he is: but pray let him bring with him the fund of his hospitality, bounty, and charity; and, depend upon it, we shall never confiscate a shilling of that honorable and pious fund, nor think of enriching the Treasury with the spoils of the poor-box.
Why, even the priests, consecrated pastors, led astray by their zealous interest in the poor-box and the maintenance of their impoverished churches, preached a veritable crusade in favor of Jansoulet's election. But an even more powerful, although less respectable, influence was set at work for the good cause, the influence of bandits. "Yes, bandits, Messieurs, I am not jesting."
But the holy man directly said to him, "She must be very dear then " "Ah!" said he, "she has swallowed many a mitre and stolen many a cross." "Well, Philippe, if thou will renounce her, I will present thee with thirty angels from the poor-box." "Ah! my lord, I should be losing too much," replied the lad, emboldened by the treat he promised himself. "Ah!
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.
At the high altar there was a very fair Crucifixion; before this the priest bent one knee. "Fine picture, fine altar, fine church," he said in English. At last they stopped next the poor-box. As their coins clinked against those within, he smiled serenely upon the good heretics. Then he bowed, and, as if he had relapsed into the past, he vanished through the narrow door by which he had entered.
At one side stood a snow-white bed, a washstand, some chairs, and an old-fashioned bureau. "Does this closet lock?" asked Madame Danglars, examining the lock. "I have a jewel-case in the coach which I would like to bring to a place of security." "Ah, the closet is as safe as the poor-box," the old lady assured her.
His presence never disturbed his master, who often read to him portions of the discourse he was writing, for his approval. Ralph's applause gave him confidence; he considered his judgment in spiritual matters more correct than his own. 'On opening the poor-box at Christmas, the rector was surprised to find that an unusually small sum had been deposited.
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