There are but four careers for a young man like you,--commerce, government employment, the licensed professions, or military service.

All forms of commerce need capital, and we have none to give you.

In place of capital, a young man can only give devotion and his capacity.

But commerce also demands the utmost discretion, and your conduct yesterday proves that you lack it.

To enter a government office, you must go through a long probation by the help of influence, and you have just alienated the only protector that we had,--a most powerful one.