And the bargain was struck there and then.
"I at once gave notice to my master, who was very angry, and said, 'If it is money you want, that need not part us.' I told him that money had nothing to do with the question, that all I wanted was the opportunity to spend my life and powers in publishing the Saviour to a lost world.

And so I packed my portmanteau, and went out to begin a new life.
"My first need was some place to lay my head.

After a little time spent in the search, I found quarters in the Walworth district, where I expected to work, and took two rooms in the house of a widow at five shillings a week, with attendance.

This I reckoned at the time was a pretty good bargain.

I then went to a furniture shop, and bought some chairs and a bed, and a few other necessaries.