for him which greatly moves him, for he is accompanying the words he
hears with the ills he feels, while the speaker is speaking a
conventionality which he would feel had he the ability. The sick man
mentally resolves that all the mistakes of his life shall be corrected
if he shall survive, and yet there are few who are able to fulfill the
programmes thus formulated--frequently the thriftless man is more
prodigal after an illness which has stabbed his pride with an
advertisement of his indigence than he was before his great vow of
future economy was recorded up on the ceiling, where,