I've only just had dinner.

But tell me how you have fared since you left me." "Ah!" he laughed bitterly.

"I had many ups and downs before I found myself here in London.

The sea did not suit me--neither did the work.
They put me in the emigrants' quarters, and consequently I could gain nothing.

The other stewards were Neapolitans, therefore, because I was a Tuscan, they relegated me to the worst post.