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Indeed, the being hard-up was a chronic affection with him. Two horses were not to be kept for nothing. Nor for the same moderate figure was it possible to maintain an asylum for unfortunates and outlaws pleasant fellows enough, but endowed with great appetites and an unquenchable taste for consolation in fluid forms.
Many a hard-up countryman, casting about for a five-dollar bill, could get it of Jean Jacques by telling him what agreeable thing some important person had said about him; or by writing to a great newspaper in Montreal a letter, saying that the next candidate for the provincial legislature should be M. Jean Jacques Barbille, of St. Saviour's.
This is at all times a critical change, as has just been mentioned for the vessel is exposed to the ravages of any sea, larger than common, that may happen to strike her as she lies nearly motionless, with her broadside exposed to its force. At the desired instant he signed with his hand, and the wheel was shifted from hard-down to hard-up.
As he stepped to the bar his glance fell upon the tramp. "Are ye drinkin' this aivenin'?" "I am that," responded the tramp, "Faith, an' its not at yer own expinse, then," with a glance at the ragged clothing and "hard-up" appearance of the wanderer. "An' a divil sight less at yours," retorted the tramp. "But by the same token, we both get our rosy by manes of our heels." "Shure fir ye, lad.
"Oh, we sha'n't find it, of course," said she calmly. I made note of the pronoun. "They've been searching for it for two centuries without success. My that is, Mr. Pless has spent days down there. He is very hard-up, you know. It would come in very handy for him." I glowered. "I'm glad he's gone. I don't like the idea of his looking for treasures in my castle." She gave me a smile for that.
"Got a bit of tobacco to spare?" he asked. "Mine's all in my swag." "Certainly," I replied. "Are you hard-up? Because I can lend you five bob till we meet again." "No, thank-you. I 've got a couple or three notes left, and even if I hadn't, I'd think twice before I touched your money. Money's a peculiar thing." "Especially in the sense of being peculiar to certain sections of society," I replied.
No, you owe me nothing, Anne. Put it out of your mind." Anne listened in amazement. "But if you are hard-up, mother dear, and on account of the money you were obliged to spend on us—because we were both spoiled and selfish—why, it is only right and just that your children, if they can afford to do so, should be allowed to turn the tables on you.
It was a figure that all the world had understood, that had been drunk often enough, lent other men money, been hard-up and extravagant and thoughtless. "A good chap." "A sensible fellow." "A pal." "No flies on Warlock." That was the kind of figure.
But I know if I abandoned my ambition hardly as she uses me I should have nothing but remorse left for the rest of my days." He became silent. I looked at him in astonishment. If ever I saw a man hopelessly hard-up it was the man in front of me. He was ragged and he was dirty, unshaven and unkempt; he looked as though he had been left in a dust-bin for a week.
He knows that I'm pretty hard-up just now, and won't be able to do much for you; and it wouldn't do for Mrs. Whitelaw of Wyncomb to begin the world with a shabby turn-out." "Of course not," replied the farmer; "I'll bring you the cash to-morrow evening, Nell; and the sooner you buy your wedding-gown the better. There's nothing to wait for, you see. I've got a good home to take you to.
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