Anything to keep the fire alight." "Why so, sir ?" asked the old man "The fire's been flickering down this many a year.

Why not let it go out quietly, at three-score years and ten?
You're sure my maid don't know ?" They put him into his bath, and he revived a little.
"No; I am not going to get well; so don't you waste your time on me, sirs! I'm taken while doing my duty, as I hoped to be.

And I've lived to see my maid do hers, as I knew she would, when the Lord called on her.

I have,--but don't tell her, she's well employed, and has sorrows enough already, some that you'll know of some day--" "You must not talk," quoth Tom, who guessed his meaning, and wished to avoid the subject.
"Yes, but I must, sir.

I've no time to lose.