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want of s conteain the worse than a siar

hateful trials of a ht have been done without, and which he is unable to pay for,

though the de

How this came about e of prices When a e finds that his furniture and other initial expenses come

to between four and five hundred pounds more than he has capital to pay

for; when at the end of a year it appears that his household expenses,

horses and et caeteras, amount to nearly a thousand, while the proceeds

of the practice reckoned froht hundred

per annum have sunk like a summer pond and make hardly five hundred,

chiefly in unpaid entries, the plain inference is that, whether he

minds it or not, he is in debt Those were less expensive times than

our own, and provincial life was comparatively modest; but the ease

hich a ht

that he was obliged to keep two horses, whose table was supplied

without stint, and who paid an insurance on his life and a high rent

for house and garden,his receipts,

can be conceived by any one who does not think these details beneath

his consideration Rosaant

household, thought that good housekeeping consisted si else "answered;" and Lydgate supposed

that "if things were done at all, they must be done properly"--he did