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Is it possible, you would say, that so grand and awful a personage as that can be hard-up for money? Alas! So it is. She never heard such a word as Snob, I will engage, in this wicked and vulgar world.
You see the Company have just bin introducin' a noo system of signallin', an' they ha'n't got enough of men who understand the thing to work it, d'ye see; so of course we've got to work double tides, as the Jack-tars say. If they continue to keep us at it like that I'll say it's a shame too, but we must give 'em time to git things into workin' order. Besides, they're hard-up just now.
An honest deputy! ah, good heavens! yes, he would have liked to be one; but was he not perpetually "hard-up," ever in search of a hundred-franc note, and thus, perforce, a deputy for sale? And withal he led such a pitiable life, so badgered by the women folk about him, that to satisfy their demands he would have picked up money no matter where or how.
Soon, however, our lack of funds began to make itself felt with a severity that was very discouraging. We felt this all the more keenly when my sister Cecilia and her husband, following our example, moved to a place quite close to us. Though not wealthy, they were fairly well-to-do. They came to see us every day, but we never thought it desirable to let them know how terribly hard-up we were.
As my funds were at a low ebb, I went to Cox and Greenwood's, those staunch friends of the hard-up soldier. Sailors may talk of the "little cherub that sits up aloft," but commend me for liberality, kindness, and generosity, to my old friends in Craig's Court. I there obtained 200L., which I took with me to a gambling-house in St.
Emigrants, however, are not so squeamish, contenting themselves in getting out to Australia, that land of promise to so many hard-up and despairing people at home, by whatever means they can so long only as they may hope to arrive there at some time or other!
"I was just looking for you," he said, greeting Paul in his usual self-contained manner; "it worries me to think you are so hard-up, though I'm not a fellow given to sentiment as a rule. Let me lend you a fiver." Paul shook his head. "Thank you all the same." "Well, then, sell me the brooch." Beecot suddenly looked squarely at Hay, who met his gaze calmly.
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.
"I don't know anything meaner than stealing money from a lot of hard-up students." "There was Gertie," she said as though that were some sort of extenuation. "Gertie they've gone off on some rotten spree not even married." It was as though he were under some horrid spell which twisted his love and anguish into the expressions of a spiteful prig.
So there was just one more offer the honest fellow had to make, and he opened with assurances 'twas only between himself an' her an' not a sowl on airth 'id ever hear a word about it and he asked her pardon, but he thought she might chance to want a guinea or two, just till Nutter came back, and he brought a couple in his waistcoat pocket. Poor Father Roach was hard-up just then.
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