He worked with that object in view.

In spite of his losses in Australia, he was in a position to retire from commerce with a very fair income.

He had lost all motive for sustained exertion, all desire to become rich.

A man who has no taste for expensive bachelor pleasures and no home has very little opportunity for getting rid of large sums of money.

Mr.Fenton had taken life pleasantly enough, and yet had never spent five hundred a year.