Come, you know you will do it; why not give in at once, and have done with it?
It is not a bad thing for you, it will be a good thing for your boy, it will save my girl from fortune hunters, and enable me to die quietly and comfortably." "All right, George, I will do it.

Mind, I don't do it willingly, but I do it for your sake." "That is right," Colonel Thorndyke said, holding out his thin bronzed hand to his brother; "that is off my mind.

Now, there is only one other thing--those confounded jewels.

But I won't talk about them now." It was not indeed till three or four days later that the Colonel again spoke to his brother on any than ordinary matters.

He had indeed been very weak and ailing.