1) Actual money 2) Cold currency 3) Moolah 4) Not checks or credit 5) Ready money 6) Real bread 7) Real dough 8) Tangible money 9) Victorian novel 
(from the article `Reade, Charles`) Reade`s novels reveal his concern with social issues. It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1856) attacked conditions in prisons, and Hard Cash (1863) ...