The world was large.

She could go and live in the republics of America.
She did not accept the advice.

She had had the same thought, but the uncertain future made her afraid.
"I am poor: I have scarcely enough to pay my traveling expenses....

The 'service' recompenses well at the start.

Afterwards when it has us surely in its clutches because of our past, it gives us only what is necessary in order to live with a certain freedom.