It is better to write one full and connected narrative than a good many imperfect fragments.
Money matters seem likely to go on capitally.

My expenses, I find, will be smaller than I anticipated.

The Rate of Exchange, if you know what that means, is very favourable indeed; and, if I live, I shall get rich fast.

I quite enjoy the thought of appearing in the light of an old hunks who knows on which side his bread is buttered; a warm man; a fellow who will cut up well.

This is not a character which the Macaulays have been much in the habit of sustaining; but I can assure you that, after next Christmas, I expect to lay up, on an average, about seven thousand pounds a year, while I remain in India.
At Christmas I shall send home a thousand, or twelve hundred, pounds for my father, and you all.