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Ten pounds will find him in clothes and linen; he can live in a garret on eighteen pence a week; hail from a coffee-house, where, by occasionally spending threepence, he may pass some hours each day in good company; he may breakfast on bread and milk for a penny; dine for sixpence; do without supper; and on clean-shirt-day he may go abroad and pay visits."
After making a great fuss we were taken back and had a good dinner at the restaurant, which we enjoyed after our monotonous fare in the car. Our maids, who had been a fortnight at the Hotel doing nothing but spending our money, met us and brought letters, &c. Dick heard from Augusta for the first time her letters had not reached him.
So what, you may ask. Like many others I had to travel on the roof of a goods waggon. I took with me a loaf of bread, a piece of cheese and two hard-boiled eggs. My father said I must be mad but he gave me some spending money and his blessing. "I had eaten my food by the end of the second day so when we stopped at Brensk which is famous for its 'piroushki' I decided to try them.
In the meanwhile, it happened that a little very dapper gentleman who was largely interested in the land-agency and general mortgage business was spending the evening with Hawtrey in Wyllard's room at the Range. He had driven round by Hawtrey's homestead earlier in the afternoon, and had deduced a good deal from the state of it, though this was a point he kept to himself.
Spending his wife's large fortune, Mr Willoughby, senior, on her death accepted an appointment at Calcutta, where he has since resided. This is his only son, landed in England after the Cape voyage, and he has written them with a very proper letter of introduction, begging that the young man may present himself and bespeaking the patronage and civility for him of Colonel and Mrs Brandon.
She laid down the last of the skins with some air of disdain. "It will be a nice series of trophies, anyway showing you know some one who goes about spending his life in killing inoffensive animals." "Poor Sir Keith Macleod! What has he done to offend you, Carry?" Miss Carry turned her head away for a minute; but presently she boldly faced her sister.
"If she were married, she would be just in the heart of her gayeties at that age, or even older." "But she isn't married, and that makes all the difference." "Her brother is spending the month at home, and she makes the most of his being with them." "Has he given up his farming? It's about time." "No; not at all, I believe.
The troubles which had come upon him had been induced by his good-natured desire to meet the heavy expenses of an extravagant household. Money which he could not earn in the legitimate exercise of his profession, nor come by honestly, had been spent. Who had had the spending of it but she his wife? Of his grievous undoing, then, it was she who was the sole cause.
I'm afraid the idea of spending three years' prospective profit wouldn't strike them with any degree of favor." His perturbation was so sincere that Smith turned back in the doorway to reassure him. "Well, don't worry," he said lightly. "Probably my remarks will so abash Mr. O'Connor that he will immediately promise to be good. I guess I'll try it on, anyway."
But here it may be said that if we spend everything we have from day to day, we are left with little choice in spending. Choice in spending is a test of the girl's character. We may choose to spend our spare money for candy. But if we do we shall probably not be able to buy a volume of poetry which we should love to keep and treasure.
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