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So my thoughts turned all money-wise, till it became fixture and habit with me; and I took nae time for pleasures. But when I heard of your fight yestreen, and how you begawked him that we are to mention no more, and of your skirmishes and by-falls with these gentry of your own land, my silly auld blood leapit in my briskit.
One of the letters to be written was one that I did not dictate to the stenographer. It was to the Reverend John Whitley, enclosing a draft to be forwarded to my sister in Glendale. Ever since he had served me in the matter of returning Horace Barton's pocketbook, I had used him as an intermediary for communicating, money-wise, with my people. He had kept my secret, and was still keeping it.
They were by no means poor, and they were not dependent money-wise upon Tom Corey; but the mother had come, without knowing it, to rely upon his sense, his advice in everything, and the sisters, seeing him hitherto so indifferent to girls, had insensibly grown to regard him as altogether their own till he should be released, not by his marriage, but by theirs, an event which had not approached with the lapse of time.
And one reason why his credit was established with the money-wise old financier was the ideal home life which he and his wife were leading. For, mark you, they were not "living beyond their means." That was the first thing. That is one of the best rules you can follow. On the other hand, do not begin your life as a miser.
"It won't bring me to want, exactly, if you mean money-wise." "I didn't mean money-wise. But I know you've always enjoyed the position so much." Hilary laughed uneasily. "Well, it hasn't been a bed of roses since we discovered Northwick's obliquities excuse me!" Matt blushed. "Oh, I know he's oblique, as such things go."
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