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Next for I had dozed I heard loud cries above my head that were repeated along the poop. I did not know till afterwards that it was Mr. Pike's command to hard-up the helm, passed along from for'ard by the men he had stationed at intervals on the bridge. All that I knew at this shock of waking was that something was happening above.
They had sauntered out of the library, well before closing time, Billy delighted to have found his reference, Susan glad to get out into the cool summer night. "Oysters?" asked William. Susan hesitated. "This doesn't come out of my expenses," she stipulated. "I'm hard-up this week!" "Oh, no no! This is up to me," Billy said.
We need something in this town that will reach out for the ignorant, fallen, hard-up, debauched, degraded men and women." Father Beason nodded emphatic approval. "I don't know, I'm sure," said the Rev. Jeremiah Wilks, "what you Brethren are going to do. If you hit on any plan to raise the money for all this, I'd like to know what it is.
My poor little wife in Bradford had sent me a letter by the last Antwerp mail saying how hard-up she was, and the way she wrote regularly touched me." "I don't like it," Kettle snapped. "What, my being keen about the money?" "No; your having such a deuce of a lot of wives." "But I am so very domesticated," said Nilssen. "You don't appreciate how domesticated I am.
Something over fifty years ago, being hard-up for cash, the Grimaldi of the period fell under the wiles of an ingenious Alsatian gambler, Guerlac by name, who foresaw that Baden-Baden and Hombourg were approaching their finish and that the sports must look elsewhere for their living, the idle rich for their sport.
There was never the slightest attempt at any sort of harmonising, or of suitability; there was a great deal of kindness to the hard-up, and a wild and extravagant delight in any novelty. In fact, the Mitchells were everything except exclusive, and as they were not guided by any sort of rule, they really lived, in St John's Wood, superior to suburban or indeed any other restrictions.
"If, a few months after his father's death, Jacques had not found himself hard-up, and obliged to dispose of this chateau, to raise the money for his expedition to the South Pole; and if papa and I had not wanted an historic chateau; and lastly, if papa had not suffered from rheumatism, I should not be calling myself in a month from now the Duchess of Charmerace."
At the Inspector's words, indeed, all James' doubts and fears revived. Hard-up pawn-tickets an overdrawn account! These words that had all his life been a far-off nightmare to him, seemed to make uncannily real that suspicion of suicide which must on no account be entertained. He sought his son's eye; but lynx-eyed, taciturn, immovable, Soames gave no answering look.
Charity, also, in its largest sense, is far wider than almsgiving. It is a questionable charity which gives you a shilling if you are hard-up, and persecutes you if you think for yourself. Most of us do not require soup-tickets, but we do require civil treatment, respect for our independence, and smiling rather than frowning faces.
"God bless my soul!" said the man. "People say there's a God!" he added. "I think there must be, sir, for you came by just then!" returned Clare. "How do you come to be so hard-up, my boy? Somebody's to blame somewheres!" "There ain't no harm in being hungry, so long as the loaf comes!" rejoined Clare. "When I get work we shall be all right!" "That's your sort!" said the man.
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