He could lodge anywhere, and bear the extremes of cold and hunger.

He was very poor, and kept himself entirely on what he could earn by work of one sort or another.

He knew of no end of resources by which to earn money.

He spent one whole winter without lighting his stove, and used to declare that he liked it better, because one slept more soundly in the cold.

For the present he, too, had been obliged to give up the university, but it was only for a time, and he was working with all his might to save enough to return to his studies again.