It'll come out and do something. I'll never forgive
myself about that deed: it would have given you something substantial
to start with. Still, you have a little tiny bit, and you'll have a
little tiny salary, too; and of course your Aunt Fanny's here, and
she's got something you can fall back on if you get too pinched, until
I can begin to send you a dribble now and then."
George's "little tiny bit" was six hundred dollars which had come to
him from the sale of his mother's furniture; and the "little tiny
salary" was eight dollars a week which old Frank Bronson was to pay
him for services as a clerk and student-at-law. Old Frank would have
offered more to the Major's grandson, but since the death of that best
of clients and his own experience with automobile headlights, he was
not certain of being able to pay more and at the same time settle his
own small bills for board and lodging. George had accepted haughtily,
and thereby removed a burden from his uncle's mind.
Amberson himself, however, had not even a "tiny bit"; though he got
his consular appointment; and to take him to his post he found it
necessary to borrow two hundred of his nephew's six hundred dollars.
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