I'll get something else and save up." This getting-something proposition complicated itself the moment he began to think of what it was he wanted to do.

Manage a place?
Where should he get such a position?
The papers contained no requests for managers.

Such positions, he knew well enough, were either secured by long years of service or were bought with a half or third interest.

Into a place important enough to need such a manager he had not money enough to buy.
Nevertheless, he started out.

His clothes were very good and his appearance still excellent, but it involved the trouble of deluding.
People, looking at him, imagined instantly that a man of his age, stout and well dressed, must be well off.