So Mike's dead, is he?
I hope he had better luck than me.' The old man did not cease from examining his son's countenance.
'What is your position, at present ?' he asked, after a pause.

'You don't look unprosperous.' 'Nothing to boast of, father.

I've gone through all kinds of trades.

In the States I both made and lost money.

I invented a new method of nickel-plating, but it did me no good, and then I gave up that line altogether.