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Updated: May 6, 2025
It was a cheerful, irresponsible, shamelessly hard-up family in the key of faded green and flattened purple, and the girls went on from the High School to the Fadden Art School and a bright, eventful life of art student dances, Socialist meetings, theatre galleries, talking about work, and even, at intervals, work; and ever and again they drew Ann Veronica from her sound persistent industry into the circle of these experiences.
When you come to central and southern Europe, titles are going a-begging, and hard-up princelets will presumably be eager to raise the wind with them. And there will be buyers as well as sellers. To the democratic mind a royal star or ribbon is an object of befitting reverence.
Any venture attracts them when hard-up for food; and the more roving it is, the better they like it. The life of the sailor is most particularly attractive to the freed slave; for he thinks, in his conceit, that he is on an equality with all men when once on the muster-rolls, and then he calls all his fellow-Africans "savages."
"Of course, you know, it hasn't come to the employment agencies and the painted blotting-pads yet; but I'm rather hard-up just for the moment, and if I could find something to do notes to write and visiting-lists to make up, or that kind of thing it would tide me over till the legacy is paid.
"We forgot to check our trunks at the Grand Central Station, though, and so we're sort of hard-up for things to wear." "Too bad." Miller smiled. "I guess you chaps haven't travelled around much, eh?" "Not much. This is the first time we've ever been so far east." "Well, I don't blame you for getting a bit confused in New York. It's a tough old place to get around in unless you know the ropes.
I wish you wouldn't. It's a vulgar word. You might as well say, 'Why did you swipe money from Percy Wintermill? He lent it to me because he realised how darned hard-up we are and felt sorry for me, I suppose." "For heaven's sake, George, don't tell me that you—" "Don't look so horrified, mother," he interrupted. "I didn't tell him we were hard-up.
If a bushman's horse ran away with him the chances were that he'd be thrown on to Watty's veranda, if he wasn't pitched into the bar; and victims of accidents, and sick, hard-up shearers, were generally carried to Watty's pub, as being the most convenient and comfortable for them. Mitchell denied that it was generosity or good nature on Watty's part, he said it was all business advertisement.
They succumbed to cholera, and the kindly wife of the viceroy, to whom she had had the forethought to secure a letter, sent for her to come to Simla and remain as her guest until she found courage and a chaperon for the return to England. Here she met Captain, the Honorable Augustus Kaye, heir to an ancient barony, chivalrous, impressionable, and hard-up.
The servants at the chateau had learned to tell from his expression whether he was prosperous or hard-up; when he felt poor he met them with an affable air and kindly words, for that was all he had to give them; when he was rich he moved among them with the air of a prince. They pardoned his haughty manner because he was generous.
Well, I suppose they didn't break their necks over me either, after the first panic. They were busy people my parents remarkably busy going to the devil.... And they were eternally hard-up. You see, my grandfather had the money still has it and he's remarkably tight. I wrote to them after six years, when I was twenty. They wrote back; at least their lawyer did.
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