Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2008

Hello:

Does
"that I should do much as I was doing"
mean
"that I should do things quite in the way I was doing them?"

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The question now arose what was to be done with the children. I
explained to Ernest that their expenses must be charged to the
estate, and showed him how small a hole all the various items I
proposed to charge would make in the income at my disposal. He was
beginning to make difficulties, when I quieted him by pointing out
that the money had all come to me from his aunt, over his own head,
and reminded him there had been an understanding between her and me
that I should do much as I was doing, if occasion should arise.

The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler, p. 478
http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Way-of-All-Flesh7.html
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Thanks.
Marius Hancu