I should, if I were you, give some consideration to these scruples of his, and if I were he, I should do the like by yours; for it is not unlikely that there may be something under both.

In the meantime you must hear how my friend acted.

Like many invalids, he supposed that he would die.

Now, should he die, he saw no means of repaying this huge loan which, by the hands of his father, mankind had advanced him for his sickness.

In that case it would be lost money.