At first it was dark, but now it seems to get lighter and lighter." "So you've made your will at last ?" asked the father, raising his eyebrows.

He meant to be humorous.
"A sort of one!" "Let's see, then.

You have something to leave ?" "I have not.

Another has." The father turned over the sheets, read a line here and there, shook his shaven head a little, and said "It seems to resemble the New Testament.

Have you been copying it from the Gospel ?" "No, I haven't got a New Testament.