the musketeer could not forget the evil reports which then prevailed , and which indeed have survived them , of the procurators of the period -- meanness , stinginess , fasts ; but as , after all , excepting some few acts of economy which porthys had always found very unseasonable , the procurator 's husband had been tolerably liberal -- that is , be it understood , for a procurator 's wife -- he hoped to see a household of a highly comfortable kind .