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He used to say bitterly that he had been born the wrong side of the Atlantic. He died soon after I left Harrow. With what money he left me I travelled all over the world: shooting, fishing, and playing the fool. "When I found myself stony-broke, I hunted up my Baltimore relations. Some of them told me it was easier to marry money than to make it.
He's sure stony-broke, not being able to turn a card because of the marshal. So he goes to live in a ole cabin up by the mine ditch, and sits there doing a heap o' thinking, and hatching trouble like a' ole he-hen. "Well, now, with that deporting of Cock-eye comes his turn of bad luck, and it sure winds his clock up with a loud report.
But his voice came to them through the thin partition. "Oh, just a couple o' stony-broke Paddylanders." Mahony, who had seized the opportunity to dart an angry glance at Purdy, which should say: "This is what one gets by coming to your second-rate pettifoggers!" now let his eyes rest on his friend and critically detailed the latter's appearance. The description fitted to a nicety.
There was a painful moment just before Bolliver left the witness-box. As if become suddenly alive to the sorry figure he had cut, he turned to the judge with hands clasped, exclaimed: "My Lord, if the case goes against me, I'm done ... stony-broke! And the defendant's got a down on me, my Lord 'e's made up his mind to ruin me.
He was practising his songs for use at the hotels, where he sang and played the banjo in the evenings, to add to his income. He told Peter that he was, at the moment, ruined. "In Engliss," he translated, "stony-broke." A shop he had kept in Genoa had failed, so he was thrown upon the roads. "You too are travelling, without a home, for gain?" he inferred.
"I know," he said, with a nod. "It's very rarely that such an advertisement is of any use. Everybody specializes nowadays." Celia rose and went to the window, that he might not see her face. "I am stony-broke," she said. "I haven't a penny; and I'm friendless no, not friendless. How can I thank you, Mr. Clendon! The sight of you to say nothing of the food has has put fresh life into me.
Then after 'im came my grandfather; he went to the law, and a sad mess he made of it went stony-broke and left my father without a sixpence; that is why mother didn't want me to go into livery. The family 'ad been coming down for generations, and mother thought that I was born to restore it; and so I was, but not as she thought, by carrying parcels up and down the King's Road."
Your "Bush" sounds perfectly captivating, and, of course, I could do the illustrations you want. Besides, I'm stony-broke and, financially, the great god Gibbs appeals to me. I'd take my passage straight off one would raise the money somehow if it wasn't for There! It's out. A MAN has come and upset the apple-cart. Mrs Gildea gave a funny little laugh. The letter answered her thought.
I had very little hope that she could ever be got to care, even if I could reconcile it with common decency to ask a girl to think of a stony-broke beggar like me. But in some moods I was mad to try my luck, when I reflected on what she had before her if I or some other brute of a man didn't snatch her from it.
I don't say so much about this other gent, though I saw him along with you on the job that time in the provinces; but if he's a pal of yours, Mr. Raffles, he'll be all right too. I only hope you gents ain't too stony " And he touched his pockets with a rueful face. "I only went for their togs," said he. "You never struck two such stony-broke cusses in yer life!" "That's all right," said Raffles.
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