In what he himself regarded as his spare hours, that is to say, the daytime hours wherein the ordinary man labors, Neddy was a highly skilled craftsman, whose only failing was a tendency to be late in the morning and to fall ill about the festive seasons of the year.

Why one man should succeed and a dozen fail has ever been an unsolved problem at the Bar, and ever will be.

Fail is another instance of different use of words.