The fact that he had broken his oath more times than there were years intervening did not trouble him; his was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.  Nor did the mere presence of two more pensioners sleeping under his roof and eating at his table bother him.  Pinching pennies was not in him.  In the course of nearly a century of gusty living he had been broke many times, had several times been wealthier than he now was; he regarded both conditions as he did shifts in the weather, and never counted his change.