If Lord Findon had commissioned the portrait, or definitely said he would purchase the 'Genius Loci,' some advance might have been asked for.

As it was, how could money be mentioned yet a while?
Phoebe had a fine and costly piece of embroidery on hand, commissioned through an 'Art Industry' started at Windermere the summer before; but it could not be finished for some weeks, possibly months, and the money Fenwick proposed to earn during his fortnight in the North by some illustrations long overdue had been already largely forestalled.

He gloomily made up his mind to appeal to an old cousin in Kendal, the widow of a grocer, said to be richly left, who had once in his boyhood given him five shillings.

With much distaste he wrote the letter and walked to Elterwater in the rain to post it.

Then he tried to work; but little Carrie, fractious from confinement indoors, was troublesome and disturbed him.