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Updated: June 19, 2025
O all ye that write or scribble, all ye tribes, both great and small, of pen-drivers and paper-scrapers! know ye, that, while ye are listening in your imaginative ambition to the praise of the elect or the applause of nations, your wives are often counting the coppers that are to buy the coming meal, alarmed at the approaching rent-day, or trembling in apprehension of the baker's bill.
Freewill offerings supported this work, which system gave occasion for some blessed testings; for sometimes rent-day would find us with an empty treasury, together with God's warning not to appeal to any but him. My cupboard was empty at times. I prayed, and he bountifully replenished it. The first Christmas season in Woodland was a notable one. We were to give a dinner to the converts.
He had kept his room in Great College Street, though often obliged to scant his meals as the weekly rent-day approached. 'Don't you think we might make some better some more economical arrangement? 'How? Nancy took courage, and spoke her thoughts. 'It's more expensive to live separately than if we were together. Tarrant seemed to give the point his impartial consideration.
Dodd, did not know that her lodger was absolutely ill, but she scarcely eats anything, she never went out, she sometimes sat up half the night. Hitherto she had paid her rent regularly, but on last rent-day she had said she could only pay two weeks more, after which she supposed she had better go to the workhouse.
I never felt so ashamed of myself in my life. This last I said to punish myself for suspecting an innocent little lady. "Oh, thank you thank you very much," said she, and then she began to cry. I knew that wasn't for effect, for we were already agreed on terms, and she had her pocketbook open showing more money that I ever have at a time, unless it's rent-day.
Oh, werry sagacious haminals is pigs!" "For shame, Hal," cried Elizabeth, "to confuse the children with such nonsense." "Why, don't you think I know how the rent is paid? I've seen Papa on rent-day hundreds of times." "But the pigs, Hal; did you ever see the pigs?" "Thousands of times." "Bringing bags of gold? O Hal! Hal!"
His revel was as loud, and his hall as weel lighted, as ever it had been, though maybe he lacked the fines of the nonconformists, that used to come to stock his larder and cellar; for it is certain he began to be keener about the rents than his tenants used to find him before, and they behooved to be prompt to the rent-day, or else the laird wasna pleased.
I have just returned from a party at the great house, in celebration of the rent-day dinner, and the squire's attentions to me, and my modest reluctance to receive them, have already excited general remark. "My pupil, Miss Milroy, comes next. She, too, is rosy and foolish; and, what is more, awkward and squat and freckled, and ill-tempered and ill-dressed.
"You can't get money by shaking a man with empty pockets," said Mr McQueen. But Mr Conroy only laughed and said: "You'll have five pounds in yours when next rent-day comes around, or 'twill be the worse for you. You wouldn't like to be evicted, I'm sure." Then he mounted his horse and rode away. Mr McQueen went into the house with a heavy heart, and told his wife the bad news.
He mastered his rising pride and resentment and did it; and though he found it a hard task to go through with his reductions at next rent-day, yet he did it.
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