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Miss Fanny Minafer
herself told me that everything George and his mother have of their
own--that is, just to spend as they like--she says it has always come
from Major Amberson."
"Thrift, Horatio!" said Eugene lightly. "Thrift's an inheritance, and
a common enough one here. The people who settled the country had to
save, so making and saving were taught as virtues, and the people, to
the third generation, haven't found out that making and saving are
only means to an end. Minafer doesn't believe in money being spent.
He believes God made it to be invested and saved."
"But George isn't saving. He's reckless, and even if he is arrogant
and conceited and bad-tempered, he's awfully generous."
"Oh, he's an Amberson," said her father. "The Ambersons aren't
saving. They're too much the other way, most of them."
"I don't think I should have called George bad-tempered," Lucy said
thoughtfully. "No. I don't think he is."
"Only when he's cross about something?" Morgan suggested, with a
semblance of sympathetic gravity.


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