"I can afford to try it one day. I feel rather badly about not earning any spending-money this summer, and so I should like to try."
"But how could you get into town every day?"
"Why, Pierre will come over mornings to teach that young man, won't he?"
"Yes; that is decided: but he only comes as far as the Harbor."
"I can go to town and back in the steamer."
"But that will cost you twenty cents a day."
"Yes; but I expect to earn more than that; and then, I shall get my money's worth in the sail; I expect to spend some of the money I earn, in having a good time."
"Very well: you can try the experiment, if you have any money to risk in the enterprise."
"I brought two dollars with me of money I earned myself, and so I think I will try it."
"What's the use of taking all that bother for some money?" said Felix. "Won't you give him all the money he wants, uncle Frank?"