There is a future before him.

When he earns a dollar he puts by more than half of it against a rainy day.

He is not extravagant.

Few young men making his salary would dress so very plainly and make his clothes do him as long.
He has no bad habits; he neither smokes nor drinks, and that is something you can say of very few young men nowadays." Margery looked up into her father's face with shining eyes.

She made no answer, but a vivid flush crept up into her cheeks, and the little hands that were busy with the teacups trembled a little.