Though, to be sure, there is always Pitman,' he added thoughtfully.
Anxiety the Third: The Cottage at Browndean; or, The Underpaid Accomplice.

For he had an accomplice, and that accomplice was blooming unseen in a damp cottage in Hampshire with empty pockets.

What could be done about that?
He really ought to have sent him something; if it was only a post-office order for five bob, enough to prove that he was kept in mind, enough to keep him in hope, beer, and tobacco.

'But what would you have ?' thought Morris; and ruefully poured into his hand a half-crown, a florin, and eightpence in small change.

For a man in Morris's position, at war with all society, and conducting, with the hand of inexperience, a widely ramified intrigue, the sum was already a derision.