"God sent the child; He is most reluctant to give any of us up.

Ay, Grizel, that's what my life has taught me, and it's all I can leave to you." The last he saw of her, she was holding his hand, and her eyes were dry, her teeth were clenched; but there was a brave smile upon her face, for he had told her that it was thus he would like to see her at the end.

After his death, she continued to live at the old house; he had left it to her ("I want it to remain in the family," he said), with all his savings, which were quite sufficient for the needs of such a manager.

He had also left her plenty to do, and that was a still sweeter legacy.
And the other Jacobites, what of them?
Hi, where are you, Corp?
Here he comes, grinning, in his spleet new uniform, to demand our tickets of us.

He is now the railway porter.