I think you are both all right, and the Professor, too.

It's my name they are calling up aloft, or so it seems to me.

Well, I don't care much, for, though no saint, I have tried to do my duty, and if it is done, it's done.

If it's written, it's got to come to pass, hasn't it?
For everything is written down for us long before we begin, or so I've always thought.

Still, I'll grieve to part from the Captain, seeing that I nursed him as a child, and I'd have liked to know him well out of this hole, and safely married to that sweet lady first, though I don't doubt that it will be so." "Nonsense, Sergeant," I said sharply; "you are not yourself; all this work and anxiety has got on your nerves." "As it well might, Doctor, not but I daresay that's true.