For the present I shall pay for your lodging." "Shall I get my meals there ?" I ventured to ask.
"Eh! You must arrange about that sort of thing yourself; and take my advice, and don't be extravagant." As my salary was to be eight shillings a week, there wasn't much chance of my eating my head off, in addition to providing myself decently with the ordinary necessaries of life.
"I say I shall pay your lodging for the present, but before long I expect you to support yourself entirely.

I cannot afford it, Frederick." It had never occurred to me before that I cost anything to keep, but the fact was slowly beginning to dawn on me, and the prospect of having shortly to support myself cast rather a damper over the pictures I had drawn to myself of my pleasant life in London.
"Good-bye," said my uncle.

"Here is half-a-sovereign for you, which remember is on no account to be spent.

Keep it by you, and don't part with it.

Good-night." And so my uncle and I parted.
It was with rather subdued feelings that next morning I set out betimes for the station, lugging my small trunk along with me.