He must act honestly, and never waste any of "the comforts and conveniences of life" which he procures for his master.
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
You will, I do not doubt, have summed up our perpetual indebtedness and the easy credit that our connexion procures; Stephanie's social ambitions and expensive popularity; her utterly extravagant incapacity to see any other possible existence; and my tacit acquiescence.
"Max Carrados"
Ernest Bramah
She knows the insides of pawn-shops, has secret treaties with tradesmen and by a hundred stratagems procures herself presents which may be converted into cash.
"The Salamander"
Owen Johnson