Position?
What was his position?
Cast off by his family, forgotten by his old friends, in debt, penniless--let position be hanged! Self-preservation was the first law.

What was the difference between this girl and himself?
Morals?
She was better than himself, anyhow.

She had genuine passions, and her sins would be in behalf of those genuine passions.

He had kicked over the moral traces many a time from absolute selfishness.

She had clean blood in her veins, she was good-looking, she had a quick wit, she was an excellent horse-woman--what then?
If she wasn't so "well bred," that was a matter of training and opportunity which had never quite been hers.