I rubbed all that out.

Aye, McTee, it took me ten years to educate myself for that girl's sake.

In the meantime, I made money, as I've said.

Ten years of that! "Beatrice was in college, and six months ago I got the word that she had graduated.

A month later I heard that she was going into a decline.
It was nothing very serious, but the doctors feared for the strength of her lungs.