When Mr. March lost his property in trying to help an unfortunate friend, the two oldest girls begged to be allowed to do something toward their own support, at least.
He was the eldest son of the family and educated at the local grammar school, but his father's business went from bad to worse, he had to leave school and begin to earn his living.
Josie Pye says she is just going to college for education's sake, because she won't have to earn her own living; she says of course it is different with orphans who are living on charity—they have to hustle.
Mrs Behn was a middle-class woman with all the plebeian virtues of humour, vitality and courage; a woman forced by the death of her husband and some unfortunate adventures of her own to make her living by her wits.
From when I was a little kid all the way to now, I still use it to kind of escape for a little bit and I know it's probably cliche to say, but I can't believe I get paid to do this.