The binding upon coat and vest had begun to show that little wound which is not wide nor deep, but is past the healing, and the shininess at knees and elbows reflected the light that never was on land or sea, or, at least, ought not to be.

He felt a degradation with it all, though it was with him the result of folly, not of fault, and he made a struggle for reform in his finances.

He abandoned the cheap room in which he lived, and slept upon the office floor at night, the place in decent weather being moderately warm.
The individual from China and the individual from more than one other land, who comes to live with us, can exist on thirty-five cents a day and think his provender the fat of the land.

But he is not a great meat-eater.

The fiber of him is not our own.