This promised an income of thirty-one dollars per week.
As an off-set to this, a careful examination into the weekly expenditure would have shown a statement something like the following: Marketing $12; groceries, flour, &c., $10; rent, $8; servants' hire-cook, chambermaid, and black boy, $4; fuel, and incidental expenses, $6--in all, $40 per week.

Besides this, their own clothes, and the schooling of the two boys did not cost less than at the rate of $300 per annum.

But neither Mrs.Turner nor Mary ever thought that any such calculation was necessary.

They charged what other boarding house keepers charged, and thought, of course, that they must make a good living.

But in no boarding house, even where much higher prices were obtained, was so much piled upon the table.
Every thing, in its season, was to be found there, without regard to prices.