He sold his clothes and his jewelry to keep himself alive while he tramped the streets of New York looking for work.

He starved himself to make this money last.

His flesh was lead-colored from want of proper food, and he staggered from weakness.
"'He that will not work neither let him eat,'" he said grimly.
It was about this time that Miss Vance came home.

Mrs.Waldeaux in a moment of weakness gave her a hint of his defeat.
"Is the world blind," she cried, "to deny work to a man of George's capacity?
What does it mean ?" Clara heard of George's sufferings with equanimity.

"The truth is," she said, when she told the story to Miss Dunbar, "Frances brought that boy up to believe that he was a Grand Llama among men.