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Updated: June 19, 2025
Just let her drift?" insisted Knowles in a tone of unbelief. "Aye! Drift, an' be blowed," affirmed Donkin with fine recklessness. The other did not see it meditated. "The stores would run out," he muttered, "and... never get anywhere... and what about payday?" he added with greater assurance. "Jack likes a good pay-day," exclaimed a listener on the doorstep.
Not with her antiquated gown, her assisting staff, the gay bonnet, nor yet with the showy small slippers and silken hose tinted unseasonably to her years did scandal engage itself; but rather with the circumstance that she drank. To "drink" meant in Little Arcady to get drunk, as "Big Joe" Kestril did every pay-day.
Upon a wall these observant strollers saw a tablet to the memory of William Lloyd Garrison. Strange, said they, we never noticed this before. Ah, said one, this is hallowed ground. It was near here that I used to borrow a quarter, the day before pay-day, to buy my lunch. The other contributed similar recollections.
It was not the festival of the Christ Child, but a time of noise and frolic and license, the great Pay-Day of the year when black men lifted their heads from a year's toiling in the earth, and, hat in hand, asked anxiously: "Master, what have I earned? Have I paid my old debts to you? Have I made my clothes and food? Have I got a little of the year's wage coming to me?"
To release the one friend, you catch hold of another the bill is renewed, premium and interest thrown into the next pay-day soon the account multiplies, and with it the honour dwindles your NAME circulates from hand to hand on the back of doubtful paper your name, which, in all money transactions, should grow higher and higher each year you live, falling down every month like the shares in a swindling speculation.
"I was under the impression that I owed it to my father," she said, with a hint of irony in her voice, "for I suppose that he earned all he has." "You suppose that he earned all that he has?" repeated the colonel. "Well, very likely you are right. He has earned more than he has got but pay-day is near at hand." There was no mistaking the menace in his tone, but the girl made no comment.
"No, honestly! Georgie and Joe are coming. The first time." "Oh, but you don't have to be there!" "Oh, but yes I do!" "Well " Mr. Coleman picked a limp rubber bathing cap from the top of a case, and distended it on two well-groomed hands. "Well, Evangeline, how's Sat.? The great American pay-day!" "Busy Saturday, too. Too bad. I'm sorry, Peter." "Woman, you lie!"
The Abbé Faber was the more sorry to go out, because that particular Saturday was pay-day, and on such occasions the Rue Mouffetard swarmed with people, and a people not well disposed toward his cloth. However good a man one may be, it is far from agreeable to be forced to lower the eyes to avoid malevolent looks, and to stop the ears against insolent words heard in passing.
She found herself, with the rest of the common women, drawn out on Friday evenings to the little market. Friday was pay-day for the colliers, and Friday night was market night. Every woman was abroad, every man was out, shopping with his wife, or gathering with his pals.
"The old man said not a word," Mr. Seven Sachs went on in the same even, tranquil, smiling voice. "But next pay-day I found I'd got a rise of ten dollars a week. And not only that, but Mr. Florance offered me a singing part in his new drama, if I could play the mandolin. I naturally told him I'd played the mandolin all my life. I went out and bought a mandolin and hired a teacher.
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