It was all he had inherited, except some debts he had laboriously paid.
He admitted that to realize his ambitions might be hard, but he meant to try.

Canada was for the young and stubborn.

If his chiefs did not promote him, he would make a plunge, and if his new plan did not work, he would go over and see the Old Country.

Then he would come back, braced and refreshed, and try his luck again.
Putting down his pipe, he got into bed.

He was tired and in the morning the gravel cars must be pulled out of the muskeg.