Only for the child, and the garden, and the sort of quiet life he leads here, he would spend a thousand a month.

And look at _my_ expenses! Look at my dresses! I suppose you think that people wear cotton velvet and glazed calico on the stage, as Mrs.Siddons did in the old days when they acted by candlelight.

Why, between dress and jewellery, I have about two hundred pounds on my back at the present moment; and you neednt think that any manager alive will find dresses to that tune.

At the theatre they think me overpaid at fifty pounds a week, although they might shut up the house to-morrow if my name was taken out of the bills.

Tell your father that so far from my living on Bob, it is as much as I can do to keep this place going by my work--not to mention the worry of it, which always falls on the woman." "I certainly had no idea of the case being as you describe," said the clergyman, losing his former assurance.