He has pretty nigh all the Liverpool docks under him now.

I have heard him say that butcher's meat did not cost him four shillings a week all the time he was here.

I've always thought Stratton one of the reasonablest places anywhere for a young man to do for himself in." "I don't know, my dear," said the husband, "that Mr: Clavering will care very much for that." "Perhaps not, Mr.B.; but I do like to see young men careful about their spendings.

What's the use of spending a shilling when sixpence will do as well; and sixpence saved when a man has nothing but himself, becomes pounds and pounds by the time he has a family about him." During all this time Miss Burton said little or nothing, and Harry Clavering himself did not say much.

He could not express any intention of rivalling Mr.Scarness's economy in the article of butcher's meat, nor could he promise to content himself with Granger's solitary bedroom.
But as he rode home he almost began to fear that he had made a mistake.
He was not wedded to the joys of his college hall, or the college common room.