To be sure--to be sure--your own five thousand dollars.

But never will I touch one cent of your nice little fortune; no, not to save my life.

After all, I am not so gone in years but what I can build the mill again myself.

The Lord hath spared my hands and eyes, and gifted me still with machinery.

And Firm is a very handy lad, and can carry out a job pretty fairly, with better brains to stand over him, although it has not pleased the Lord to gift him with sense of machinery, like me.