"One or two of the jokes in it will keep," he observed; then, when his son nodded assent, he folded it up and threw it in the fire.

This was a righteous action.

He never got any thanks for doing it; also a certain severity that he was inclined to feel against the deceased for dying just then, he quickly turned (from a sense of justice) towards the living members of his family, and from them to their party, the "pinks" in general.

Then he began to moralise.

"Captain Walker--and so he's dead--died at five o'clock this morning.