It needed correction, he knew; here was discipline.

Besides, he had set apart the coming three or four years of his life to make money in, enough for the time to come.

He would devote his whole strength to that work, and so be sooner done with it.

Money, or place, or even power, was nothing but a means to him: other men valued them because of their influence on others.

As his work in the world was only the development of himself, it was different, of course.