Some may not think it so sad for us, but we had both come to so love him that it really seems as though we had lost a father.

I never knew either father or mother, so that the dear old man's death is a real blow to me.

Jonathan is greatly distressed.

It is not only that he feels sorrow, deep sorrow, for the dear, good man who has befriended him all his life, and now at the end has treated him like his own son and left him a fortune which to people of our modest bringing up is wealth beyond the dream of avarice, but Jonathan feels it on another account.

He says the amount of responsibility which it puts upon him makes him nervous.