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Updated: May 6, 2025
Of course you're hot; that's what I brought you out for. I never thought they'd try Porter in their boat. They might as well try Riddell. Just shows how hard-up they must be for men. How are you?" he cried, as the schoolhouse tub went clumsily past, both rowers looking decidedly nervous under the critical eye of the captain of Parrett's.
After dinner we sat on the sea-wall, feeling more like after dinner than we had felt for days, and Dora said "Poor Miss Sandal! I never thought about her being hard-up, somehow. I wish we could do something to help her." "We might go out street-singing," Noël said.
Then he added, confidentially, "The fact is, young un, I'm hard-up. I lost a lot of money on the race, owing to that that is, because Parrett's lost. The thing is, can you lend me a couple of sovereigns, Wyndham?" Wyndham's face clouded for a moment, but he replied quickly, "Yes, I can, Silk, if you'll promise to see it doesn't get out about last Saturday." "Of course I will.
I'd like them to have sold. Always, until now, I've had hopes of the next one, and thought that it would turn out better, like a woman with her babies. I seem to have given up expecting that now. It isn't, you know, being always hard-up that I mind so much, although that, mind you, isn't pleasant, no, by Jehoshaphat, it isn't.
But the wind is fair, and this is no time for sorrowful thoughts. "Hard-up the helm! Dick," said D . "Ay, ay, sir." "Steady! So." "Steady, sir." "Some man there, heave the lead!" and down it went, rushing, in five-and-twenty fathoms on the Silver Pits. At nine, the vessel was hove to, and we tried our lines for fish, but did not succeed.
And then duns came o’er the spirit of his dream, and fond visions of sundry small debts, paid by magic and a wife, as soon as he should succeed in finding the wife who had the magic, floated across his hard-up brain, and encouraged him to perseverance in his matrimonial quest.
For the moment, she was silent, saying nothing; but there was no moaning of wounded vanity in the heart of her. Two questions were weighing out the issue. If she said she were hard-up, then all opportunity of gaining the chance would be lost. He would give her money tell her to go. That would be all. If she refused to admit it, the opportunity slight as it had become would still be there.
I had been somewhat hard-up lately, and one after the other of my belongings had been taken to my "Uncle." I had grown nervous and irritable. A few times I had kept my bed for the day with vertigo. Now and then, when luck had favoured me, I had managed to get five shillings for a feuilleton from some newspaper or other.
They say the reason Henfrey is hard-up is because he spent all he possessed upon the woman, and on going there that night she laughed him to scorn and told him she had grown fond of a rich Austrian banker. After mutual recriminations, Henfrey, knowing the woman had ruined him, drew out a revolver and shot her." "I tell you it's an abominable lie! Hugh is not an assassin!" cried the girl fiercely.
Lambert asked his cousin indignantly. "No; Silver blackmailed on his own. I hoped to get money from Agnes in another way as her hard-up brother that is. And if " "Oh, shut up! You make me sick," interrupted Lambert, suppressing a strong desire to choke his cousin. "You are as bad as Silver."
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