“‘No, not yet. At present nothing but the following consideration. You see I have some two or three months left me to live perhaps four; well, supposing that when I have but a month or two more, I take a fancy for some “good deed” that needs both trouble and time, like this business of our doctor friend, for instance: why, I shall have to give up the idea of it and take to something else some little good deed, more within my means, eh? Isn’t that an amusing idea!’