Why do you laugh ?" "You escaped from yourself _there_, at all events." "At last I saw an advertisement in a newspaper--a London paper in the reading-room--which I was tempted to answer; and I got an engagement in London.

When the time came for starting I was so afraid and low-spirited that I all but gave it up.

I should have done, if I could have known what was before me.

The first year in London was all loneliness and ill-health.

I didn't make a friend, and I starved myself, all to save money.