[The Professor by (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell]@TWC D-Link bookThe Professor CHAPTER VI 8/10
I'd recommend you to travel." "What! without money ?" "You must travel in search of money, man.
You can speak French--with a vile English accent, no doubt--still, you can speak it.
Go on to the Continent, and see what will turn up for you there." "God knows I should like to go!" exclaimed I with involuntary ardour. "Go: what the deuce hinders you? You may get to Brussels, for instance, for five or six pounds, if you know how to manage with economy." "Necessity would teach me if I didn't." "Go, then, and let your wits make a way for you when you get there.
I know Brussels almost as well as I know X----, and I am sure it would suit such a one as you better than London." "But occupation, Mr.Hunsden! I must go where occupation is to be had; and how could I get recommendation, or introduction, or employment at Brussels ?" "There speaks the organ of caution.
You hate to advance a step before you know every inch of the way.
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