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It was her turn now, and she was as ready to sacrifice her white merino on the shrine of the household impecuniosity as she would be to borrow Dolly's best bonnet, or Mollie's shoes, or Aimée's gloves, when occasion demanded such a course. So the merino was laid upon the table, and the council rose to examine, comment, and suggest. "A train," said Dolly, concisely; "no trimming, and swan's-down.
I think his object was to impress me with his humiliation, impecuniosity, and general low condition, because as soon as he received the money which he always did, I vowing to myself each time that this advance should be the last, and as regularly breaking my vow he would tip-toe carefully to the mantel-piece, get down his pen and ink, borrow my sand-bottle, and proceed to indite me a letter of acknowledgment.
For he not only bestowed upon them such attention as he could spare from his poodles and his mistresses, but being in his usual state of impecuniosity, begged for them of the Duke of Ormond; and, that step being without effect, gave them Chelsea College, a charter, and a mace: crowning his favours in the best way they could be crowned, by burdening them no further with royal patronage or state interference.
Tailors, robemakers, and booksellers gave him trust, and did believe that they would get their money. And any persistent tradesman did get it. He did not actually hoist the black flag of impecuniosity, and proclaim his intention of preying generally upon the retail dealers, as his uncle the admiral had done. But he became known as a young man with whom money was "tight."
May the divil transmogrify you into a less pretentious individual, wid more brains and a domm sight less impecuniosity!" Our landlady had converted the up-stairs sitting room into a reception room and private office for the Doctor, by drawing a heavy curtain as a partition.
There was no one who in his youth had suffered fewer troubles from those causes of trouble which visit English young men, occasional impecuniosity, sternness of parents, native shyness, fear of ridicule, inability of speech, and a general pervading sense of inferiority combined with an ardent desire to rise to a feeling of conscious superiority.
"Impecuniosity will do you good," Pen's friend said, knocking out the ashes at the end of the narration; "I don't know anything more wholesome for a man for an honest man, mind you for another, the medicine loses its effect than a state of tick.
'Gentlemen, said he, 'you see before you an operator who has reached the limit of impecuniosity." Not far from the limit of impecuniosity was Edison himself, as he landed in Boston in 1868 after this wintry ordeal. This chapter has run to undue length, but it must not close without one citation from high authority as to the service of the military telegraph corps so often referred to in it.
In this atmosphere in which he was born Jack floated along without effort, with no demand upon him to keep up with a rising standard of living. Even impecuniosity, though inconvenient, would not have made him lose caste. All this was changing now.
Of course he wanted me to help him, but I turned a deaf ear to his entreaties. I have never seen this adventurer without his being in a desperate state of impecuniosity, but he would never learn to abate his luxurious habits, and always managed to find some way or other out of his difficulties.
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