 EXPORTATION," as the circular brass front and window blind announced. Now, though Lucy's attractions were great, and though she never sold even one of her hay-and-brown-paper cigars under sixpence, or ever gave change for a shilling, still Soapey and...  May and December - Página 202por Catherine Anne Hubback - 1854Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 318 páginas
...has been overcast by the dark clouds of adversity, and mayhap she has now to lament over the truth of the old proverb, that " when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window !" Opposite to Agnes sits Mary — our Mary — the high-priestess of the night's... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 336 páginas
...one of cries, too often of blows ; natural affection has given way before the iron pressure of want. The old proverb, that, " When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window," is true in a far more general sense than the one in which it is generally... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1868 - 724 páginas
...subsistence. When the discovery took place she was at the point of marriage with a neighbouring young farmer. The old proverb that " when Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window," was now exemplified, and Sally was left to a state of single blessedness.... | |
 | 1842 - 418 páginas
...one of cries, too often of blows ; natural affection has given way before the iron pressure of want. The old proverb, that, " When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window," is true in a far more general sense than the one in which it is generally... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees - 1865 - 462 páginas
...sixpence, or ever gave change for a shilling, still Soapey and she could not make both ends meet ; and when poverty comes in at the door, love will fly out of even a glittering cigar-shop window. So it was with the Sponges. Deprived of his betting recreation,... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees - 1865 - 458 páginas
...sixpence, or ever gave change for a shilling, still Soapey and she could not make both ends meet ; and when poverty comes in at the door, love will fly out of even a glittering cigar-shop window. So it was with the Sponges. Deprived of his betting recreation,... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees - 1865 - 460 páginas
...sixpence, or ever gave change for a shilling, still Soapey and she could not make both ends meet ; and when poverty comes in at the door, love will fly out of even a glittering cigar-shop window. So it was with the Sponges. Deprived of his betting recreation,... | |
 | Wilhelmina Martha James - 1885 - 332 páginas
...chanced to tell her that, after all, I should perhaps marry some day. " Better not, Mary," she said. "When poverty comes in at the door, love will fly out of the window."* " Then, I'll shut it, Mother," was my reply. But, thank God, I have never had any cause to shut it.... | |
 | Mary Roper (fict.name.) - 1885 - 180 páginas
...chanced to tell her that, after all, I should perhaps marry some day. " Better not, Mary," she said. "When poverty comes in at the door, love will fly out of the window."* " Then, I'll shut it, Mother," was my reply. But, thank God, I have never had any cause to shut it.... | |
 | Margot Asquith - 1938 - 462 páginas
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