“Well, and did you win?”
“No.”
“Did you lose?”
“No.”
“How then?”
“I did not put into the lottery, for I was convinced that it was a foolish way of spending money.”
“If you think it’s foolish or wrong,” said Oliver, “I’ll have nothing to do with this lottery.”
“I don’t want to govern you by my opinion,” said Howard; “but if you have patience to attend to all the reasons that convinced me, you will be able to judge, and form an opinion for yourself. You know I must leave school some time or other, and then—”
“Well, don’t talk of that, but tell me all the reasons, quick.”
“I can’t tell them so very quickly,” said Howard, laughing: “when we go home this evening I’ll ask my aunt to look for the passage in Smith’s Wealth of Nations, which she showed me.”