"You don't seem altogether cut out for it--not that you don't do your work and all that sort of thing," he went on, hastily.

"I haven't a word of complaint to make, mind.

All the same, you certainly seem as though you might have done a little better for yourself." "It is the fault of circumstances, sir," Arnold replied.

"I am hoping that before long you will find that I do my work well enough to give me a better position." "You are ambitious, then ?" The face of the young man was suddenly grim.
"I mean to get on," he declared.

"There were several years of my life when I used to imagine things.