I have no idea if she saved for those new clothes, if they were given to her for Christmas by her parents, or if she went through a hell of begging that finally bore dividends.
He was the one who decided I should have a larger allowance when I was fifteen, and he insisted that I should go to Harvard for my senior year, when Uncle Henry wanted me to take my degree at the University.
" He can quite well get his own paper and wax, " he said. " He has plenty of pocket money, and he'd much better spend it on something like that than on sweets and make himself sick" .
In his treatise on " Queen-Gold, " or Queen-pin-money, an old King's Bench author, one William Prynne, thus discourseth: " Ye tail is ye Queen's, that ye Queen's wardrobe may be supplied with ye whale-bone."