Question

There have been a good many funny things said and written about being hard up. But the reality is not
funny. For all that it is not funny to have to haggle over pennies. It isn't funny to be thought mean and
stingy. it isn't funny to be shabby, and to be ashamed of your address. No, there is nothing at all funny in
poverty - to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man: and many a brave gentleman, who would
have faced the labours of Hercules, has had his heart broken by its petty miseries
it is not the actual discomforts themselves that are hard to bear. Who would mind roughing it a bit if that
were all it meant? What cared Robinson Crusoe for a patch on his trousers ? What did it matter to him if
his toes did stick out of his boots ? And what if his umbrella was a cotton one, so long as it kept the rain
off. His shabbiness did not trouble him : there were none of his friends round about to sneer.
Being poor is a trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting. It is not cold that makes a man
without a greatful hurry along so quickly. It is not all shame at telling lie which he knows will not be
believed that makes him turn so red when he informs you that he considers greatcoats unhealthy, and
never carries an umbrella on principle. It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime-Not: if it were
men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised
the whole world over, despised as much by a labourer as by a lord, stained youth will make him respected.
Appearances are everything. so far as human opinion goes : and the man who will walk down
piccadillyarem in arm with the most notorious scamp in London. Provided he is a well-dressed one, will
slink up a back street to say a couple of words to a seedy-looking gentleman. And the seedy looking
gentleman knows this - no one better - and will go a mile round to avoid meeting an acquaintance.
Those that knew him in his prosperity need never trouble themselves to look the other way. He is a
thousand times more anxious thet they should not see him than they can be: and as to their assistance.
There is nothing he dreads more than the offer of it. All he wants is to be forgotten; and in this respect be
is generally fortunate enough to get what he wants.
alow Give the meaning of each as used in the passage.​

Answer 1

Answer:

oh! my God

Explanation:

it's too big to read