"Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everything""nothing else 'answered;' and Lydgate supposed that 'if things were done at all, they must be done properly'"he did not see how they were to live otherwise. If each head of household expenditure had been mentioned to him beforehand, he would have probably observed that 'it could hardly come to much,' and if any one had suggested a saving on a particular article"for example, the substitution of cheap fish for dear"it would have appeared to him simply a penny-wise, mean notion."

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"Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everything""nothing else 'answered;' and Lydgate supposed that 'if things were done at all, they must be done properly'"he did not see how they were to live otherwise. If each head of household expenditure had been mentioned to him beforehand, he would have probably observed that 'it could hardly come to much,' and if any one had suggested a saving on a particular article"for example, the substitution of cheap fish for dear"it would have appeared to him simply a penny-wise, mean notion."

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