Bread for such a family must cost at least twenty-five pounds.

Clothes for five persons, of whom one must at any rate wear the raiment of a gentleman, can hardly be found for less than ten pounds a year a head.

Then there remains fifteen pounds for tea, sugar, beer, wages, education, amusements, and the like.

In such circumstances a gentleman can hardly pay much for the renewal of his furniture! Mrs.Crawley could not answer her husband's question before her daughter, and was therefore obliged to make another excuse for again sending her out of the room.

"Jane, dear," she said, "bring my things down to the kitchen and I will change them by the fire.