Thus avarice was his prevailing passion: all his questions on the road were how money might be saved, which was the least expensive course of travel; whether any thing could be bought that would turn to account when disposed of again in London.

Such curiosities on the way as could be seen for nothing he was ready enough to look at; but if the sight of them was to be paid for, he usually asserted that he had been told they were not worth seeing.

He never paid a bill, that he would not observe, how amazingly expensive travelling was, and all this though he was not yet twenty-one.

When arrived at Leghorn, as we took a walk to look at the port and shipping, he enquired the expence of the passage by sea home to England.

This he was informed was but a trifle, compared to his returning by land, he was therefore unable to withstand the temptation; so paying me the small part of my salary that was due, he took leave, and embarked with only one attendant for London.
'I now therefore was left once more upon the world at large, but then it was a thing I was used to.