—for with all these symptoms of profligacy at ten years old, she had neither a bad heart nor a bad temper, was seldom stubborn, scarcely ever quarrelsome, and very kind to the little ones, with few interruptions of tyranny; she was moreover noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness, and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house.
Either of these figures would be far down on the profligacy shown by Europe's elite clubs at the turn of the millennium, when Real Madrid spent more than 50 per cent of their income in signing each of Luis Figo and Zinedine Zidane.
Again, people fear that direct financing of government deficits would merely encourage fiscal profligacy.
