I drank the milk which was furnished."-- "But any liquors, sir ?"---"No." He deliberated a moment, and then, assuming an air of disinterestedness, "'Tis our custom to charge dinner and club; but, as you drank nothing, we'll let the club go.

A mere dinner is half a dollar, sir." He had no leisure to attend to my fluctuations.

After debating with myself on what was to be done, I concluded that compliance was best, and, leaving the money at the bar, resumed my way.
I had not performed more than half my journey, yet my purse was entirely exhausted.

This was a specimen of the cost incurred by living at an inn.
If I entered the city, a tavern must, at least for some time, be my abode; but I had not a farthing remaining to defray my charges.

My father had formerly entertained a boarder for a dollar per week, and, in case of need, I was willing to subsist upon coarser fare and lie on a harder bed than those with which our guest had been supplied.