My bed quilt cost me $250.

It was a lovely Chinese floss silk shawl." His talents as a giver of dinners were in evidence at that early age, and his father made use of them in connection with the law business.

There was a French _chef_, at a salary of ten thousand dollars a year.

High prices and scarcity served only as spurs to the young Petronius.
"Such dinners as I gave I have never seen surpassed anywhere," he complacently recorded in later years.

Some one spoke to the elder McAllister of the admirable manner in which his son kept house.