Capitolo 4
it will have hard once."
"Me it surprises that in the long estate of Your father of office he did
you don't save anything", tells the gentleman of country a tone that didn't point out,
only surprises but reproval.
"There was not a lot of opportunity to save on a salary of four hundred
dollars for year", said Herbert, soberly "after having sustained a family
of three."
"Ahem!" says the gentleman of country, wisely; "where a wish there is there is a
way. Improvidence is the great guilt of the lowest classes."
"We don't belong to the lowest classes", said Herbert, lining up the text with
indignation.
Gentleman of country Walmsgham was secretly ambitious to represent his/her district
of the day in Congress, and he felt that he had committed an error. It
it won't do for an aspirant to office to speak of the lowest classes,
and the gentleman of country hastened to mend his/her error.
"That was not the term that I have intended to implicate", him complied
you explain. "I meant to say that improvidence it is the prevailing guilt
of that whose income is small."
"We have not had a lot of opportunity to be improvident!" Said Herbert "Us
you/he/she has had to spend everything of our income, but we am not in debt--that is,
we don't have debts that we am incapable to pay."
"Or well", it said Walsingham Gentiluomo of country, "but, my youth
constituent--I intend my young friend--I learn that you don't do
takes a correct sight of public office. It is not projected to sustain a
privileged class in luxury."
"Luxury, four hundred for year!" Answered Herbert.
"I am speaking to general terms", says the gentleman of country with hurry. "I mean
to say that I cannot simply recommend a person to office because him
or she needs the income."
"No, gentleman, I know that; but my mother understands the duties of the
office, and any complaint has been made what she doesn't make a good person
official postal."
"Possibly", says the gentleman of country, not-committally; "but I am opposite on
I begin to conferring offices on women. Men are more efficient,