passage-moneys

Updated: May 21, 2025

Now he saw that this scheme had been a kind of Jack-o'-lantern a marsh-light after which he might have danced for years to come. As matters stood, he must needs be content if, the passage-moneys paid, he could scrape together enough to keep him afloat till he found a modest corner to slip into. His first impulse was to say nothing of this to his wife in the meantime. Why unsettle her?

Henry Handel Richardson - Australia Felix