I think I can get along well without you." "If you can, I shall be glad to leave you at once.

The fact is, a friend of mine starts for the mines to-morrow, and I would like to accompany him.

I asked him to put it off a day, but he thinks he can't." "Go with him, by all means.

I can get along." So, on the morning of the third day, Joe found himself alone.
At the end of the first week he made a careful estimate of his expenses and receipts, and found, to his astonishment, that he had cleared two hundred dollars.

It seemed to him almost incredible, and he went over the calculations again and again.