Else, why are you not as one of these! Oh, think! where would you have been at this moment if God had dealt with you as with them ?" "Where I am now, I suppose," said Tom quietly.
"Where you are now ?" "Yes: where I ought to be.

I am where I ought to be now.

I suppose if I had found myself anywhere else this morning, I should have taken it as a sign that I was wanted there, and not here." Grace heaved a sigh at words which were certainly startling.

The Stoic optimism of the world-hardened doctor was new and frightful to her.
"My good madam," said he, "the part of Scripture which I appreciate best, just now, is the case of poor Job, where Satan has leave to rob and torment him to the utmost of his wicked will, provided only he does not touch his life, I wish," he went on, lowering his voice, "to tell you something which I do not wish publicly talked of; but in which you may help me.

I had nearly fifteen hundred pounds about me when I came ashore last night, sewed in a belt round my waist.