He wanted pounds to expend upon those new books and music which served so often as the excuse for a visit to the Lawn.

He wanted pounds for very trivial purposes; but he wanted them desperately.

A lover without pounds is the most helpless and contemptible of mankind; he is a knight-errant without his armour, a troubadour without his lute.
In his dilemma Mr.Hawkehurst resorted to that simple method which civilisation has devised for the relief of pecuniary difficulties of a temporary nature.

He had met George Sheldon several times at the Lawn, and had become tolerably intimate with that gentleman, whom he now knew to be "the Sheldon of Gray's Inn," and the ally and agent of certain bill-discounters.

To George he went one morning; and after requesting that Captain Paget should know nothing of his application, explained his requirements.