The elderly relatives did what they could but it meant that all through his life — not that he even survived to forty — there was never a chance to take it a bit easier , no one he could rely on to do the work if he was ill or tired .
The elderly relatives did what they could but it meant that all through his life — not that he even survived to forty — there was never a chance to take it a bit more serious , no one he could rely on to do the work if he was ill or tired .