You are a successful man and I am a failure, and it's a turning of the tables to talk as if I could lend you a hand." "In what way are you a failure ?" asked Newman.
"Oh, I'm not a tragical failure!" cried the young man with a laugh.
"I have fallen from a height, and my fiasco has made no noise.

You, evidently, are a success.

You have made a fortune, you have built up an edifice, you are a financial, commercial power, you can travel about the world until you have found a soft spot, and lie down in it with the consciousness of having earned your rest.

Is not that true?
Well, imagine the exact reverse of all that, and you have me.

I have done nothing--I can do nothing!" "Why not ?" "It's a long story.