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Updated: June 10, 2025
"Thank you, my love, for saying so," replied her mother gratefully; "and you see it is as well that I did not accustom myself to driving, among other indulgences, for another of the retrenchments which your father mentioned was putting down the brougham.
At noon home to dinner, and then with my wife abroad, set her down at the Exchange, and I to St. James's, where find Sir W. Coventry alone, and fell to discourse of retrenchments; and thereon he tells how he hath already propounded to the Lords Committee of the Councils how he would have the Treasurer of the Navy a less man, that might not sit at the Board, but be subject to the Board.
The King, more and more carried away by anger, replied, that the war would soon oblige him to make some retrenchments, and that he would commence by cutting down the pensions of Monsieur, since he showed himself so little accommodating.
Economy and dignity are compatible essential to each other. To preserve independence, and, consequently, integrity, economy is necessary in all stations. Therefore, sir, I determine for I am not stringing sentences together that are to end in nothing I determine, at this moment, to begin to make retrenchments in my expenditure.
Thus the family circular, once a month, goes from each extreme to all the members of a widely-dispersed family, and each member becomes a sharer in the joys, sorrows, plans, and pursuits of all the rest. At the same time, frequent family meetings are sought; and the expense thus incurred is cheerfully met by retrenchments in other directions.
He was not allowed to continue the prodigality of Calonne; and it was too late to return to the retrenchments of Necker. Economy, which had been a means of safety at a former period, was no longer so in this. Recourse must be had either to taxation, and that parliament opposed; or loans, and credit was exhausted; or sacrifices on the part of the privileged classes, who were unwilling to make them.
"Not that he does not think it useful and necessary," said the minister, "but he wishes to have war and peace both at once peace because he wishes to make no retrenchments in his pleasures of women, dogs, and buildings, and so war would be very inopportune.
I received pleasure without any annoyances from this hospitality and attention. I devoted my mornings to study, my days to solitude and to the sea, my evenings to a small number of unknown friends, who came from the city to speak to me of travels, literature, and commerce. "Commerce at Marseilles is not a matter of paltry traffic, or trifling parsimony and retrenchments of capital.
The Dames de la Halle at the Theatre. Thanksgiving at Notre Dame. The King goes to a Bal d'Opéra. The Queen's Carriage breaks down. Marie Antoinette has the Measles. Her Anxiety about the War. Retrenchments of Expense. Anglomania in Paris. The Winter at Versailles. Hunting. Private Theatricals. Death of Prince Charles of Lorraine. Successes of the English in America.
His retrenchments in household expenses she had been ready to applaud as praiseworthy economies; but when he assailed her own extravagance, she saw in him a husband who loved far too wisely to love well. "If he cared for me, if he valued my good looks, he could never object to my spending a few pounds upon a dress," she told herself.
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