Mary Erskine, for her part, seemed perfectly willing that he should borrow the money to buy more stock, as she liked the idea of having more oxen, sheep, and cows.

But she seemed decidedly opposed to using borrowed money to build a new house, or to buy new furniture.

Her head would ache, she said, to lie on a pillow of feathers that was not paid for.
Albert finally concluded not to borrow the money, and so Mr.Keep lent it to Mr.Gordon.
Things went on in this way for about three or four years, and then Albert began to think seriously of building another house.

He had now money enough of his own to build it with.

His stock had become so large that he had not sufficient barn room for his hay, and he did not wish to build larger barns where he then lived, for in the course of his clearings he had found a much better place for a house than the one which they had at first selected.