You may need me before it is over." "Do you think he looks as if he were going to die ?" asked the squire doubtfully, as he again approached the bedside.
"I don't know," answered John, standing on the other side.

"I never saw any one die.

He looks very ill." "Very ill.

I have seen many people die--but somehow I have a strong impression that this fellow will live." "Let us hope so," said John.
"Well--" The squire checked himself.

Probably the hope he would have expressed would not have coincided with that to which John had given utterance.