to stop you in the street and conspicuously ask youthe time. Nobody even feels the slightest curiosity on the subjectwhen you've got it on.
Dear old ladies and gentlemen who know nothing about being hardup--and may they never, bless their gray old heads--look upon thepawn-shop as the last stage of degradation; but those who know itbetter (and my readers have no doubt, noticed this themselves) areoften surprised, like the little boy who dreamed he St. Louis Blues Pelipaidat went to heaven, atmeeting so many people there that they never expected to see. For mypart, I think it a much more independent Douglas Costa Drakter course than borrowing fromfriends, and I always try to impress this upon those of myacquaintance who incline toward "wanting a couple of pounds till theday Blank Drakter after to-morrow." But they won't all see it. One of them onceremarked that he objected to the principle of Liverpool the thing. I fancy ifhe had said it was the interest that he objected to he would have beennearer the truth: twenty-five per cent. certainly does come heavy.
There are degrees in being hard up. We are all hard up, more orless--most of us more. Some are hard up for a thousand pounds; somefor a shilling. Just at this moment I am hard up myself for a fiver.
I only want it for a day or two. I should be certain of paying itback within a week at the outside, and if any lady or gentleman amongmy readers would kindly lend it me, I should be very much obligedindeed. They could Daniele Bonera Drakter send it to me under cover to Messrs. Field & Tuer,only, in Players Pelipaidat such case, please let the envelope be carefully sealed. Iwould give you my I.O.U. as security.
ON VANITY AND VANITIES
All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So aremen--more so, if possible. So are children, particularly children.
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