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• A dollar and a quarter seems a small sum, but if you are absolutely penniless it might as well be a thousand.
• This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.