'I don't think they have any marked faculty for such work; but as they certainly haven't for teaching, that doesn't matter.

It's a question of learning a business.

I am going through my apprenticeship, and find it a long affair.

Money would shorten it, and, unfortunately, I have none.' 'Yes,' said Marian, turning her eyes upon the stream, 'money is a help in everything.' 'Without it, one spends the best part of one's life in toiling for that first foothold which money could at once purchase.

To have money is becoming of more and more importance in a literary career; principally because to have money is to have friends.