But, if you should want me, I would rather shut up the shop than not come." "There is no need for that! Indeed, I would much rather have you in the evening.

The first of the night is worst of all.

It's then the devils are out .-- Look here," he added, after a short pause, during which Mary, for as unfit as she felt, hesitated to leave him, "-- being in business, you've got a lawyer, I suppose ?" "Yes," she answered.
"Then you go to him to-night the first thing, and tell him to come to me to-morrow, about noon.

Tell him I am ill, and in bed, and particularly want to see him; and he mustn't let anything they say keep him from me, not even if they tell him I am dead." "I will," said Mary, and, stroking the thin hand that lay outside the counterpane, turned and left him.
"Don't tell any one you are gone," he called after her, with a voice far from feeble.

"I don't want any of their damned company.".