"
"What do you think about, then?"
"About God."
"And when you die you'll go straight to heaven, of course?"
"I don't know, my lord. That's another thing I never trouble my head
about."
"Ah! you're like me, then. _I_ don't care much about going to heaven.
What do you care about?"
"The will of God. I hope your lordship will say the same."
"No I won't: I want my own will."
"Well, that is to be had, my lord."
"How?"
"By taking his for yours as the better of the two, which it must be
every way."
"That's all moonshine."
"It _is_ light, my lord."
"Well, I don't mind confessing, if I am to die, I should prefer heaven
to the other place, but I trust I have no chance of either. Do you now
honestly believe there are two such places?"
"I don't know, my lord."
"You don't know? And you come here to comfort a dying man!"
"Your lordship must first tell me what you mean by 'two _such_
places.' And as to comfort, going by my notions, I cannot tell which
you would be more or less comfortable in; and that, I presume, would
be the main point with your lordship."
"And what, pray, sir, would be the main point with you?"
"To get nearer to God."
"Well, I can't say _I_ want to get nearer to God. It's little he's
ever done for me."
"It's a good deal he has tried to do for you, my lord."
"Well, who interfered? Who stood in his way, then?"
"Yourself, my lord."
"I wasn't aware of it.
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