`` `Yes, dear aunt, travel undertaken in the right
spirit,' agreed Christine; `but travel pursued merely as a
means towards gambling and extravagant living is more likely
to contract the purse than to enlarge the mind. However, as
long as Roger enjoys himself, I suppose he doesn't care how
fast or unprofitably the money goes, or where he is to find
more. It seems a pity, that's all.'
``The aunt by that time had begun to talk of something
else, and it was doubtful if Christine's moralizing had been
even accorded a hearing. It was her remark, however---the
aunt's remark, I mean---about travel enlarging the mind,
that gave the youngest Brimley Bomefield her great idea for
the showing-up of Roger.
`` `If aunt could only be taken somewhere to see him
gambling and throwing away money,' she said, `it would open
her eyes to his character more effectually than anything we
can say.'
`` `My dear Veronique,' said her sisters, `we can't go
following him to race-meetings.'
`` `Certainly not to race-meetings,' said Veronique, `but
we might go to some place where one can look on at gambling
without talking part in it.
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