George Manville Fenn
"To The West"
Chapter One.
Mr John Dempster.
“What would I do, sir? Why, if I were as poor as you say you are, and couldn’t get on here, I’d go abroad.”
“But where, sir? where to?”
“Anywhere. Don’t ask me. The world’s big enough and round enough for you, isn’t it?”
“But without means, Mr Dempster?”