He would scarcely be ten pounds a year the loser by the hundred that was to be paid them; for, what with her board and pocket allowance, and the continual presents in money which passed to her through her mother's hands, Lydia's expenses had been very little within that sum.
En des termes qui, bien que concis, exprimaient sa profonde reconnaissance, il écrivit a son beau-frere qu’il approuvait pleinement tout ce qu’il avait fait, et ratifiait tous les engagements qu’il avait pris en son nom.