He watched her as she swung in to the wharf with her load of cheering immigrants.
It reminded him of his landing in Canada, and he looked back upon the disappointments and hardships he had borne in the country.

He had soon found there was no easy road to wealth, and life had so far been an arduous struggle.

He had known poverty, hunger, and stinging cold, and now his pay left little over when he had satisfied his frugal needs.

All would be different if he went back to England, and he pondered over Allott's specious arguments.

There was no reason he should not take the offered post if he could do so on his terms, and it was possible that his employers would release him.