But, after all, my mother is older than I am; and who am I, to set my views up against hers?
By avoiding the theatres for the next six months, I am (already), say, three pounds to the good.

I had been frittering away my money, too, on luxuries; and luxuries are effeminate.

Thinking the matter over temperately and calmly in that way, I saw that I should be thoughtfully saving money, instead of spending it, by buying Romulus and Remus, as I already called them.

At the same time, I should be gratifying my father and my mother, and leading a higher and a nobler life.

Even then I do not know that I should have bought the pipes until the six months were up, had I not been driven to it by jealousy.