If he failed in getting a dinner or meal at any of these places, he either used to go without, or a bit of bread answered the purpose till next meal.

In his dress he was so shabby and uncouth that any decent person would be ashamed to walk with him in the street.

Above all, his notorious meanness in his money matters, his stickling with his poor washerwoman for a halfpenny and with others for a farthing, and his uniform stinginess on all occasions rendered him notoriously disgusting to all his acquaintances, and affords, I should imagine, but a poor example for imitation....
"The fact is I could live for _fifty_ pounds a year if my only object was to live cheap, and, on the other hand, if I was allowed one thousand pounds a year, I could spend it all without the least extravagance in obtaining greater advantages in my art.

But as your goodness has allowed me but two hundred pounds (and I wish you again to receive my sincere thanks for this allowance), should not my sole endeavor be to spend all this to the utmost advantage; to keep as closely within the bounds of that allowance as possible, and would not _economy_ in this instance consist in rigidly keeping up to this rule?
If this is a true statement of the case, then have I been perfectly economical, for I have not yet overrun my allowance, and I think I shall be able to return home without having exceeded it a single shilling.

If I have done this, and still continue to do it, why, in every letter I receive from home, is the injunction repeated of _being economical ?_ It makes me exceedingly unhappy, especially when I am conscious of having used my utmost endeavors, ever since I have been in England, to be rigidly so.
"As to _industry_, in which mama fears I am falling off, I gave you an account in my last letter (by Mr.Ralston) of the method I use in parcelling out my time.