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Then comes the sacrifice of some little cherished article of furniture the cutting off of some little indulgence the sacrifice of that which gave his home an appearance of additional comfort and happiness the sacrifice gradually, one by one, of the principal articles of furniture, till at last the well-conducted, honest, frugal, saving working man finds himself on a level with the idle, the dissipated, and the improvident obliged to pawn the very clothes of his family- -nay, the very bedding on which he lies, to obtain the simple means of subsistence from day to day, and encountering all that difficulty and all that distress with the noble independence that would do anything rather than depend upon public or even on private charity, and in his own simple but emphatic language declaring, 'Nay, but we'll CLEM first.
When I came down the boatswain nodded his approval. I kept looking out for Clem. At last I saw my friend the doctor, with several other officers, on the quarter-deck. I hurried aft to him, and, touching my cap, asked him how Clem was. The others stared at me as if surprised at my audacity in thus venturing among them.
'You 'old your jaw, mother, or I'll precious soon set my marks on your ugly old face! What does he say there about you? You're to pay me money. He's made arrangements with you. Don't try to cheat me, or I'll soon have a summons out against you. The letter's proof; it's lawyer's proof. You try to cheat me and see. Clem had sufficient command of her faculties to devise this line of action.
"'And her terms, mother? I said. "'Oh, you dear commercial Clem, always thinking of terms! cried my mother. "Heaven bless her innocent heart! I had asked that sordid question only to hide the unreasoning gladness of my heart.
From her grandfather Jane knew that, to this day, nothing had been heard of Hewett's daughter; what people said at the time of the girl's disappearance she had learned fully enough from Clem Peckover, who even yet found it pleasant to revive the scandal, and by contemptuous comments revenge herself for Clara's haughty usage in old days.
"But, Sue but, Sue," Anna said eagerly, "Billy would be editor Billy would be in charge there would be a contract nobody could call that selling the paper, or changing the policy of the 'Protest' " "Exactly what I said!" laughed Susan. "However, the next morning we rushed over to the Cudahys you remember that magnificent old person you and Conrad met here? That's Clem.
What was it to me that this hazel-eyed girl was engaged to teach my little niece 'Non piu mesta'? what was it to me that my breast should be all of a sudden filled with a tumult of glad emotions, and thus shrink from any encounter with my mother's honest eyes? "'Well, Clem, the terms are almost ridiculously moderate, my mother said, presently.
It's somewhere about here, isn't it?" "Over there," said Septimus, with a wave of the hand. He brought a chair from the other table. "Do sit down." Sypher obeyed. "How's the wife?" "The what?" asked Septimus. "The wife Mrs. Dix." "Oh, very well, thank you," he said hurriedly. "Let me introduce you to my good friend Monsieur Hégisippe Cruchot of the Zouaves Monsieur Cruchot Monsieur Clem Sypher."
'I'll cut it off, he says, 'close, he says, 'if you don't swear on this crucifix to be a good squaw to Clem Dewler, and never set so much as one of your little feet in these places again. She could feel the shears against her hair, and she was so scared she swore like he told her.
Clem regarded him with cautious scrutiny. He was acting well, and her profound distrust began to be mingled with irritating uncertainty. 'What can she expect? If she does, she'll have to be disappointed, that's all. 'I don't want to seem mean, you know. But then she isn't so badly herself, is she? 'I know nothing about it. You'd better ask her. And Clem grinned.
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