He had feigned sleep in order to carry out his purpose.
He had preferred death, of which the meaning was unknown to him, to the possibility of that living death in which his father had lingered for many years.

And who shall say that his thoughts were entirely selfish?
There may have been a father's love somewhere in this action.

Thomas Oscard, the eccentric savant, had always been a strong man, independent of the world's opinion.

He had done this thing deliberately, of mature thought, going straight to his Creator with his poor human brain full of argument and reason to prove himself right before the Judge.
They picked him up and laid him reverently on the bed, and then Guy went for the doctor.
"I could," said the attendant of Death, when he had heard the whole story--"I could give you a certificate.

I could reconcile it, I mean, with my professional conscience and my--other conscience.