They put the one above the other and so far they have trusted to luck.

If Anne had spurned my money I haven't the slightest doubt that she would have married you and made you a good wife.

The fact that she did not spurn my money would seem to prove that she wouldn't make anybody a good wife.

I know all this is painful to you, my boy, but I must say it to you before I die.

You see I am dying.
That's quite apparent, even to the idiots who are trying to keep me alive.
They do not fool me with their: 'Aha, Mr.Thorpe, how are we to-day?
Better, eh ?' I am dying by inches,--fractions of inches, to be precise." He stopped short, out of breath after this long speech.
Braden laid his hand upon the bony fore-arm.