The extreme cold smote upon her conscience.

She could not bear to think this bitter business fell usually to the lot of one so old as Jonathan, and made desperate resolutions to be earlier in the future.
The fire was a good blaze before he entered, limping dismally into the kitchen.

'Nance,' said he, 'I be all knotted up with the rheumatics; will you rub me a bit ?' She came and rubbed him where and how he bade her.

'This is a cruel thing that old age should be rheumaticky,' said he.

'When I was young I stood my turn of the teethache like a man! for why?
because it couldn't last for ever; but these rheumatics come to live and die with you.