During all the years he had frequented her house, she had faithfully kept her word never to send a bill home to his house.

But a bill cannot lie for ever on the threshold, as the police know.

That is the way of the world: it is the same for one as it is for the other--so it must just be got by a distress warrant.

That was what she had said to him, unwilling though she had been to do so, and so unpleasant, she could truthfully say, as it was to disturb such a quiet, decent man.
It was high time to rid the bar of its encumbrance.

The public-house bear had hunted up a hand-barrow, but had to get a couple more men to help carry.