CHAPTER X.
OF SAM'S PRIVATE AFFAIRS AND OF THE FIRM OF BROUGH AND HOFF We took a genteel house in Bernard Street, Russell Square, and my aunt sent for all her furniture from the country; which would have filled two such houses, but which came pretty cheap to us young housekeepers, as we had only to pay the carriage of the goods from Bristol.
When I brought Mrs.H.her third half-year's dividend, having not for four months touched a shilling of her money, I must say she gave me 50_l_.

of the 80_l_., and told me that was ample pay for the board and lodging of a poor old woman like her, who did not eat more than a sparrow.
I have myself, in the country, seen her eat nine sparrows in a pudding; but she was rich and I could not complain.

If she saved 600_l_.

a year, at the least, by living with us, why, all the savings would one day come to me; and so Mary and I consoled ourselves, and tried to manage matters as well as we might.

It was no easy task to keep a mansion in Bernard Street and save money out of 470_l_.