Do the best you can, and keep up hope." "I shall try to do so." "You have reason to do so.

You may not save your house, but you have, probably, a good many years before you, and plenty of good fortune may be in store for you." The cheerful tone in which the lady spoke some how made Ben hopeful and sanguine, at any rate, for the time being.
"In this country, the fact that you are a poor boy will not stand in the way of your success.

The most eminent men of the day, in all branches of business, and in all professions, were once poor boys.

I dare say, looking at me, you don't suppose I ever knew anything of poverty." "No," said Ben.
"Yet I was the daughter of a bankrupt farmer, and my husband was clerk in a country store.

I am not going to tell you how he came to the city and prospered, leaving me, at his death, rich beyond my needs.
Yet that is his history and mine.