It was another of his failures.

His wife tried hard to make the scheme succeed, and if anybody could have made it succeed she would have done it.

She was a good woman, and was greatly liked.

She had a practical side, and she would have made that boarding-house lucrative if circumstances had not been against her.
Orion had other projects for recouping me, but as they always required capital I stayed out of them, and they did not materialize.

Once he wanted to start a newspaper.