Though she but seldom interfered with any monetary arrangement of her husband's, yet once or twice she had ventured to hint that a legacy left to the young squire would make her a happy woman.

Sir Roger, however, on these occasions had not appeared very desirous of making his wife happy.
"Ah, Louis! is that you ?" ejaculated Sir Roger, in tones hardly more than half-formed: afterwards, in a day or two that is, he fully recovered his voice; but just then he could hardly open his jaws, and spoke almost through his teeth.

He managed, however, to put out his hand and lay it on the counterpane, so that his son could take it.
"Why, that's well, governor," said the son; "you'll be as right as a trivet in a day or two--eh, governor ?" The "governor" smiled with a ghastly smile.

He already pretty well knew that he would never again be "right," as his son called it, on that side of the grave.

It did not, moreover, suit him to say much just at that moment, so he contented himself with holding his son's hand.