He got behindhand with his rent, and his landlady has given him notice.

As usual, everybody to whom he owes money has found out his altered circumstances, and is down on him.

The keeper of the music-hall, the tailor, the cigar merchant, are among the most urgent." "And your being here is a result of all this, I see," said I, knowing the story was at an end, and considering my tongue to be released.
"Find out!" angrily retorted the pin, relapsing into ill-tempered silence.
I had little enough inclination to revert to the sad topic, and for the rest of that day gave myself up to sorrow and pity for Tom Drift.

One thing I felt pretty sure of--it would not be long before he came again; and I was right.
In two days he entered the office, wild and haggard as before, but with less care to conceal his visit.
This time he laid on the counter the famous lance-wood fishing-rod which Charlie had given him months ago, and which surely ought to have been a reminder to him of better times.
He flung it down, and taking the few shillings the pawnbroker advanced on it, hurried from the shop.
The next time he came some one else was in the shop.

A passing flush came over Tom's face on discovering a witness to his humiliation; but he transacted his business with an assumed swagger which ill accorded with his inward misery.