As a mutual friend, I wish to arrange it in a satisfactory manner, if possible; and thus the case stands .-- If you are very poor now, it's your own choice.

You have friends who, in case of need, are always ready to help you.

My friend is in a more destitute and desolate situation than most men, and, you and he being linked together in a common cause, he naturally looks to you to assist him.

He has boarded and lodged with me a long time (for as I said just now, I am very soft-hearted), and I quite approve of his entertaining this opinion.

You have always had a roof over your head; he has always been an outcast.