'Try South America.' The lordly gentleman plotted out a scheme of colonisation and conquest in that region with the coolness of a practised freebooter.

'No young man is worth a job,' he said, 'who does not mean to be a leader, and as leader to have dominion.

Here we are fettered by ancestry and antecedents.
Had I to recommence without those encumbrances, I would try my fortune yonder.

I stood condemned to waste my youth in idle parades, and hunting the bear and buffalo.

The estate you have inherited is not binding on you.