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Large numbers of them were driven to herding in foul tenements or evil dwellings, the inducements of which was the rent, a little lighter than could be had elsewhere. Every cent economized meant much. Butter was a superfluous luxury. The morning meal was made up of a chunk of bread washed down with "coffee" adulterated stuff with just a faint odor of real coffee.
They no more economized on their minister than they did on their pew-cushions, and they spent an amount of money on their choir which made the singing-people at St. Paul's gnash their teeth. From all this it will be seen that the atmosphere of the Crescent Chapel was of a very distinct and individual kind.
The London and Liverpool markets are in a more exhausted state than you appear to be aware of, and the supplies which are to be expected till April, are so totally inadequate to filling the immense void which has been created by the failure of the potato crop, the deficiency of the Spring crops, and the foreign demand, that they give us no confidence.... You must therefore bear in mind, and impress upon all those with whom you are acting, that even the stock of food at your disposal has a certain fixed limit, and that it must be economized, and made to last the requisite time, like any private stock.
Let us have the money we have economized, spent for us in things that we want, in additional fruit and vegetables, or in some articles of diet that we need to replace the food we do not use." The answer to it was that the Association furnished certain things, and if the members did not eat them it was their loss, as it could not be expected that the Association could cater to individual tastes.
I saw his throat work the throat of an old man his "Adam's apple" going convulsively up and down like a tossed ball in a fountain jet. Then, lest I should sob while his eyes were dry, I looked away. We all had champagne out of the marvellous bottle which had been hoarded during long months in case of "a great occasion," and we economized sips but not healths.
The burnt brick was thus made to protect the unburnt from the influence of the weather, while labor and fuel were greatly economized by the employment to so large an extent of the natural substance. The size and color of the bricks vary.
It seems far more serious it appears to me a possession now, and time a sort of property which has to be economized and doled out almost as cautiously as money. I have not touched a brush this fortnight. I doubt if I have been in the painting-room more than once in all this time." This conversation, which evidently discomfited William Elgerton, was productive to me of no small satisfaction.
His outer garments removed, he had only to seek the seclusion of the bedclothes, clad in the remainder of his attire. In this manner he economized on the cost of a night-robe and the time it would consume to don and doff such a superfluity.
A great passion was springing up within him; his one dream now was to dower her richly and seek happiness through her, if indeed he could ever be happy again. Thus feelings of avarice had come to him; he economized with respect to everything that was not connected with her, and secretly sought supplementary work in order that he might give her more luxury and increase her dower.
Lately, when an orator had strongly expressed himself against the maxim of patriotic office-hunters, "To the victor belong the spoils," he was very logically asked, "And pray, Sir, to whom should the spoils belong, if not to the victor?" So we would ask, should any one complain of girls being thus economized by men, "Who, in the name of common sense, should, if not men?
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