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,Hanoverian.
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,Maillot E.Hazard Pas Cher, noticed this themselves) areoften surprised, like the little boy who dreamed he went to heaven, atmeeting so many people there that they never expected to see. For mypart, I think it a much more independent 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 after to-morrow." But they won't all see it. One of them onceremarked that he objected to the principle of 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,Bosnie Pas Cher, 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.
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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.
One of them at this very moment is hammering upon my legs. She wantsto know what I think of her new shoes. Candidly I don't think much ofthem. They lack symmetry and curve and possess an indescribableappearance of lumpiness (I believe, too, they've put them on the wrongfeet). But I don't say this. It is not criticism,Manchester United Pas Cher, but flattery thatshe wants; and I gush over them with what I feel to myself to bedegrading effusiveness. Nothing else would satisfy thisself-opinionated cherub. I tried the conscientious-friend dodge withher on one occasion, but it was not a success. She had requested myjudgment upon her general conduct and behavior,CG Dame Constable Parka, the exact casesubmitted being,Dame Moncler Safran, "Wot oo tink of me? Oo peased wi' me?" and I hadthought it a good opportunity to make a few salutary remarks upon herlate moral career, and said: "No,Mężczyźni Barbour Rosamund Skóra Kurtka, I am not pleased with you." Irecalled to her mind the events of that very morning,Moncler Szal, and I put it toher how she,Vauvan Cg Reese Bomber Suomi, as a Christian child, could expect a wise and good uncleto be satisfied with the carryings on of an infant who that very dayhad roused the whole house at five AM.; had upset a water-jug andtumbled downstairs after it at seven; had endeavored to put the cat inthe bath at eight; and sat on her own father's hat at ninethirty-five.
What did she do? Was she grateful to me for my plain speaki
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