How could you lose your money, I ask?
You 're nothing but a student, and you are not in any business, are you ?" "Yes, I am in business, and pretty bad business it is, too." "What do you mean ?" "I mean that I 've been winding myself up into a hard knot, the last six months, and the more I try to disentangle myself, the worse the thing gets.

My allowance is n't half enough; nobody but a miser could live on it.

I 've been unlucky, too.

I bought a dog, and some one poisoned him before I could sell him; then I lamed a horse from the livery-stable, and had to pay damages; and so it went.

The fellows all kept lending me money, rather than let me stay out of the little club suppers, and since I 've shut down on expensive gayeties they've gone back on me, and all want their money at once; so does the livery-stable keeper, and the owner of the dog, and a dozen other individuals; in fact, the debtors' prison yawns before me." "Upon my word, I 'm ashamed of you!" said Polly, with considerable heat.