He had never worked under price; indeed, he had sometimes gone hungry rather than do so; but now it seemed that others were doing it.

And then he was so awfully hard up.

If he refused this job he was not likely to get another in a hurry.

He thought of his home and his family.

Already they owed five weeks' rent, and last Monday the collector had hinted pretty plainly that the landlord would not wait much longer.