I will, first of all, go to him, and ask his advice.

He is a business man, and he may be able to put me in the way of obtaining a position." "I think you will succeed, Frank, but it will be harder than you think for.

You don't know what poverty is yet.

I have never known anything else." "If I do succeed, Herbert, I may be able to find something for you." "I wish you might," Herbert replied; but he was not as sanguine as Frank.
He understood, better than his friend, that for a boy to set out alone into the great world to earn a living is a serious undertaking..