The property which I shall leave behind me will be barely sufficient for the maintenance of your mother respectably.

I again ask you what you intend to do.

Do you think you can support yourself by your Armenian or your other acquirements ?" "Alas! I think little at all about it; but I suppose I must push into the world, and make a good fight, as becomes the son of him who fought Big Ben: if I can't succeed, and am driven to the worst, it is but dying--" "What do you mean by dying ?" "Leaving the world; my loss would scarcely be felt.

I have never held life in much value, and every one has a right to dispose as he thinks best of that which is his own." "Ah! now I understand you; and well I know how and where you imbibed that horrible doctrine, and many similar ones which I have heard from your mouth; but I wish not to reproach you--I view in your conduct a punishment for my own sins, and I bow to the will of God.

Few and evil have been my days upon the earth; little have I done to which I can look back with satisfaction.