In Business by Arthur Morrison — Read

There was a great effervescence of rumor in Cubitt Town when Ted Munsey / came into money. Ted Munsey, commonly alluded to as Mrs. Munsey's / 'usband, was a moulder with a regular job at Moffat's: a large, quiet / man of forty-five, the uncomplaining appurtenance of his wife. This was / fitting, for she had married beneath her, her father having been a dock / timekeeper.

To come into money is an unusual feat in Cubitt Town; a feat, / nevertheless, continually contemplated among possibilities by all Cubitt / Towners; who find nothing else in the Sunday paper so refreshing as the / paragraphs headed "Windfall for a Cabman" and "A Fortune for a Pauper," / and who cut them out to pin over the mantelpiece. The handsome coloring / of such paragraphs was responsible for many bold flights of fancy in / regard to Ted Munsey's fortune: Cubitt Town, left to itself, being / sterile soil for the imagination. Some said that the Munseys had come in / for chests packed with bank notes, on the decease of one of Mrs. / Munsey's relations, of whom she was wont to hint. Others put it at a / street full of houses, as being the higher ideal of wealth. A few, more / romantically given, imagined vaguely of ancestral lands and halls, which / Mrs. Munsey and her forbears had been "done out of" for many years by / the lawyers.