I have money enough to keep me till I get started in something." "Really, I am very glad to hear it!" And there is no doubt that Mr.Tarbox was sincere.
"I wonder how much money he has got ?" thought Pliny.

"Perhaps he'd lend me two dollars.

I'll ask him, if I have a chance." Pliny proposed to borrow, not because he needed the money, but because he liked to levy contributions upon any available party, with a very faint idea of repaying the same.

The money would go to swell his deposit at the savings bank.

It was very commendable, of course, to save his money, but not at the expense of others, as Pliny too frequently did.
"I have moved you out of the spare room," said Mrs.Tarbox, when our hero asked permission to retire, "and put you in the same room with Pliny.