To go to work, if possible, and scrape together a pound or so, with which I might bribe some steward or underling to give me chance to work my passage.

They envied me my youth and strength, which would sooner or later get me out of the country.
These they no longer possessed.

Age and English hardship had broken them, and for them the game was played and up.
There was one, however, who was still young, and who, I am sure, will in the end make it out.

He had gone to the United States as a young fellow, and in fourteen years' residence the longest period he had been out of work was twelve hours.

He had saved his money, grown too prosperous, and returned to the mother-country.