I was spared all chill, all stint; I was not suffered to fear penury; I was not tried with suspense.
But wealth and greatness had long since stretched their gilded pinions and fled hence, leaving these their ancient nests, perhaps to house Penury for a time, or perhaps to stand cold and empty, mouldering untenanted in the course of winters.
While you speak, there can be no oblivion of inferiority—no encouragement to delusion: pain, privation, penury stamp your language….
He left it on his marriage, and settled down on a small property he had near Quimper to live for the rest of his days in peace; but the failure of an attorney left him suddenly penniless, and neither he nor his wife was willing to live in penury where they had enjoyed consideration.
The lordly life had changed to a life of penury.
