"Nobody even offered to give me a start in life.

I have to work hard, and that's all the good it does." The fact was that Hogan had not done a whole day's work for years.
But such men are very apt to deceive themselves and possibly he imagined himself a hard-working man.
"It's disgusting to see the airs that boy puts on," he continued to soliloquize.

"It's nothing but luck.

He can't help getting on, with everybody to help him.

Why didn't he let me sleep in his place to-night?
It wouldn't have cost him a cent." Then Hogan drifted off into calculations of how much money Joe was making by his business.