CHARLES.
Yes, certainly. I hope never to do any thing that I should be afraid to mention to him. He sometimes gives the gardener money himself.
EDWARD.
My uncle gives his own money, and what you gave is not your own.
CHARLES.
I beg your pardon; what I have given to the gardener was my own; I received it a few days before I left London as a reward; and could I make a better use of it? I did double business that I might have some money to give away.
EDWARD.
And could you not have bought something with it; such as fire-works? They would have afforded rare sport in the country.
CHARLES.
Fire-works, and for what? Fire-works are but for a moment; while the shoes the poor man will buy for his children, will keep them out of the wet a month or two.