While the farmer or passing stranger, calling at the decent house really for refreshment, drinks but a glass or two and departs, the frequenters of the low place never quit their seats till the law compels them, so that for sixpence spent in the one by men with cheque-books in their pockets, five shillings are spent in the other by men who have not got a loaf of bread at home for their half-starving children and pinched wife.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Whereupon the little maid departs down a passage into a smell of wallflowers, and is heard afar rendering her message as a long narrative-so long that Dr. Conrad says the child cannot have understood right, and they had better prosecute inquiry further.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
The true soul, which has been waiting for an opportunity, now approaches the dormant body, and, if the mark has been washed off in time, takes possession of it; but if not, it, like the demon, failing to recognize the body, departs, and the child dies in its sleep.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz