What can a man do, when he has not a friend in the world?
He picks up a living as he can, but everybody looks at him with suspicion.

There is no friend to take his part, and so people vent their ill humours upon him, till the time comes when he revolts at the injustice and strikes back; and then he has to begin it all over again, somewhere else.
"And yet, sir, I know that I could be faithful and true to anyone who would not treat me like a dog.

You spoke kindly to me in the stable, and gave me a crown.

No one had ever given me a crown before.

But I cared less for that than for the way you spoke.