He scraped enough together to bring little Marcus and the rest of the family out of the miseries of the old country and died of cancer six months later.
He asked people to imagine a mother who uses her money for medicine instead of food and then sees her child die because the medicine was of poor quality or falsified.
This event had at last been despaired of; but it was then too late to be saving. Mrs. Bennet had no turn for economy, and her husband's love of independence had alone prevented their exceeding their income.
His first care, after being thus " Japanesed, " was to enter a tea–house of modest appearance, and, upon half a bird and a little rice, to breakfast like a man for whom dinner was as yet a problem to be solved.