"‘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!’