But you must try to get him to live within your means, my dear, or you will both be miserable.

Try to keep him from borrowing." "But he refuses to talk to me about his work.

It bores him," said Gabriella; and her simple soul, trained to regard debt as a deeper disgrace than poverty, grew suddenly troubled.

In her childhood they had gone without food rather than borrow, she remembered.
"The matter with dear George," pursued Mrs.Fowler--and from the sweetness of her manner she might have been paying him a compliment--"is that he has never been steady.

He doesn't stick at anything long enough to make it a success.