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Updated: June 2, 2025
When their boat was detained at Marsluys, all three sat writing in the cabin Shelley his novel, Mary a story called 'Hate', and Claire a story called 'The Idiot' until they were tossed across to England, and reached London after borrowing passage-money from the captain. The winter was spent in poverty, dodging creditors through the labyrinthine gloom of the town.
In them the cargo is looked upon as the principal thing, and in the eyes of the crew passengers are a troublesome addition, whose comfort is generally very little studied. The captain is the only person who takes any interest in them, since a third or even the half of the passage-money falls to his share.
Eight days later, came a letter from the colonel, informing his mother that he was about to return to France on board a packet from New York, whose captain had trusted him for the passage-money. Philippe announced that he should need at least a thousand francs on his arrival at Havre.
Brandon, for all his difficulties saying he was ruined and all that sort of thing would have gone overland, if he had only had his letters soon enough." "Because he was only one, or, with Edgar, two, and time was of more importance to him than the difference in passage-money.
As he had insisted on repaying Lord Ripon his passage-money from England to India which, owing to his resignation, the Viceroy would otherwise have had to pay out of his own pocket, Gordon was quite without funds, and he had to borrow the sum required to defray his passage to China. But having made up his mind, such trifling difficulties were not likely to deter him.
If she had been in Melbourne, she could have borrowed the ten or twelve pounds needed for her passage-money, and a decent-looking outfit from people who knew her there, and guessed that she had some hidden means, either from friends or foes; but in Adelaide she was unknown except from her connection with Peck, which did not inspire confidence.
Others had sold their clothes to raise the passage-money, and had hardly rags to cover them; others had no food, and lived upon the charity of the rest: and one man, it was discovered nearly at the end of the voyage, not before for he kept his secret close, and did not court compassion had had no sustenance whatever but the bones and scraps of fat he took from the plates used in the after- cabin dinner, when they were put out to be washed.
His subsequent conduct showed that he did not want me aboard with him any more than I wanted to be there. Had I not taken matters into my own hands by boarding the brig in such a desperate hurry just as I had hurried to close with his offer and to clinch it by paying down my passage-money he would have gone off without me.
"Yes, will I though, and quick too. You heard what the men were saying in the evening there's Manx ones going by the boat in the morning? Well, I'll go with them." "And you talk of being low in your pocket," said Phil. "Why, it will take all you've got, man." "And more, too," said Pete, "but you'll lend me the lave of the passage-money. That's getting into debt, but no matter.
Late on the fatal wedding-day his first idea, when he was himself again after the discovery in the summer-house, was to get back his passage-money, to abandon his wife and his stepson, and to escape to America in a French steamer. He went to the office of the English company, and offered the places which he had taken for sale.
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