"Hugh managed all that for her, so I know it." "She don't lose any of it because she enters herself for running again, does she ?" "Not a shilling.

That's the beauty of it." "Was you ever sweet on her before ?" "What! before Ongar took her?
O laws, no.

She hadn't a rap, you know; and knew how to spend money as well as any girl in London." "It's all to begin then, Clavvy; all the up-hill work to be done ?" "Well, yes; I don't know about up-hill, Doodles.

What do you mean by up-hill ?" "I mean that seven thousand a year ain't usually to be picked up merely by trotting easy along the fiat.

And this sort of work is very up-hill, generally, I take it--unless, you know, a fellow has a fancy for it.