So much as that does reach his ears, and recommends itself to his common sense.

But why should it not be he as well as another?
There is always some lucky one winning the prize.

And this prize when it has been won is so well worth the winning! He can endure starvation,--so he tells himself,--as well as another.

He will try.

But yet he knows that he has but one chance out of ten in his favour, and it is only in his happier moments that he flatters himself that that remains to him.