It is sad for you to have to go.
Perhaps even yet he may think of something better, though I don't know how we can ask or expect it." "I don't want anything better," replied he, "than that I should have money enough to carry me to America.

I'm in more scrapes than this (though none so bad) in England; and in America there's many an opening to fortune." He followed her down the steps while he spoke.

Once in the yellow light of the watery day, she was struck by his ghastly look.

Sharp lines of suspicion and cunning seemed to have been stamped upon his face, making it look older by many years than his age warranted.

His jaunty evening dress, all weather-stained and dirty, added to his forlorn and disreputable appearance; but most of all--deepest of all--was the impression she received that he was not long for this world; and oh! how unfit for the next! Still, if time was given--if he were placed far away from temptation, she thought that her father's son might yet repent, and be saved.