Now, I have demonstrated that I cannot earn anything by my profession.

I have tried it faithfully and well.

Last year I did not earn enough to pay my office rent.

I never shall in Banbridge, and there is no sense whatever in my striking out in a new place with no prestige and no money.

You and I simply want enough to live on, enough money to buy the wherewithal to keep the flame of life comfortably burning, and I can think of no other way than this grocery business.