On the table there also lay a half crown and a florin,
as though Bob had been examining these products of the Royal Mint
with a view to improving the artistic quality of his amateur
workmanship. He took up the coins quietly as his wife entered and
put them in his pocket.
'Mrs. Rendal's been at me again, Bob,' Pennyloaf said, as she set
down her market-basket. 'You'll have to give her something to-day.'
He paid no attention, and Pennyloaf had a difficulty in bringing him
to discuss the subject of the landlady's demands. Ultimately.
however, he admitted with discontent the advisability of letting
Mrs. Rendal have something on account. Though it was Saturday night,
he let hour after hour go by and showed no disposition to leave
home; to Pennyloaf's surprise, he sat almost without moving by the
fire, absorbed in thought.
Genuine respect for law is the result of possessing something which
the law exerts itself to guard. Should it happen that you possess
nothing. and that your education in metaphysics has been grievously
neglected, the strong probability is, that your mind will reduce the
principle of society to its naked formula: Get, by whatever means,
so long as with impunity.
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