This renunciation gave him satisfaction, and was easy and simple.

Another series of thoughts and mental images related to the life he longed to live now.

The simplicity, the purity, the sanity of this life he felt clearly, and he was convinced he would find in it the content, the peace, and the dignity, of the lack of which he was so miserably conscious.

But a third series of ideas turned upon the question how to effect this transition from the old life to the new.