How does fifteen per cent.
strike you?
and if he lives for six or seven years, I'll make it twenty.

Mind you, I offer the casket and the best trimmings, eight carriages, the finest hearse in the county, and ice enough for three days in the swelteringest weather in August.

And I don't mind--well--yes, I'll even agree to throw in a plain tombstone.

If you can do that to accommodate a friend, why, I'll--No?
Don't want to speculate on it?
Oh, very well; I'm sorry, because I know you'd been satisfied with the way I'd have arranged things.

But no matter; I s'pose I can go round and borrow elsewhere.