He knew perfectly well that a single word from him would bring her and her money to his rescue at once.

But something arose in him which made the utterance of such a word impossible.

As for Cora and the little one, they brought up a different emotion, and the thought of them at last aroused him to action.
"I'll get something to do and earn money enough to go back on," he finally said to himself; "that's all I'm fit for, just to work by the day for some other man; that's my size.

I've failed in everything else I've ever undertaken.

I've no business to interfere with a girl like Mary.