The bailiff, the eldest, had a pound a week, out of which he had to purchase every necessary, and from which five shillings were deducted for lodgings.

It may be that he helped himself to various little perquisites, but his income from every source was not equal to that of a junior clerk.

The other nominally received more, being now a skilled workman; but as he had to pay for his lodgings and food in town, he was really hardly so well off.

Neither of these young men had the least chance of marrying till their father should die; nothing on earth would induce him to part with the money required to set the one in business up or the other in a separate farm.

He had worked all his time under his father, and it seemed to him perfectly natural that his sons should work all their time under him.
There was one daughter, and she, too, was out at work.