But his character was gone, the difficulty of finding employment stared him in the face.
He joined the ranks of the shabby-genteel to live somehow by bits of honest work, mixed with a great deal of dishonest work.

Four years of this life, two more children for the mother, increasing drunkenness, degenerating into brutality on her husband's part.

Her father's death and some little money left to her gave momentary respite.

But the money soon went.

Her brother had taken the greater portion and had gone into a far country.