human
Mysterious are the dealings of Providence, Mr. Verney; happy those who read the lesson, sir. How few of us so favoured! Wonderful are his ways!
gpt
No very great wonder, however, considering he was sixty-four in May last. The young man knew his vagabond uncle Arthur's age to an hour, and nobody can blame him much for his attention to those figures.
human
It might not have happened, of course, for ten or twelve years, but it might have occurred, I suppose, at any moment. How did it happen? Do you know the particulars? But, is there--is there no (he was ashamed to say hope)
gpt
Perfectly certain, _perfectly_. In a family matter, I have always made it a rule to _be_ certain before speaking. No trifling with sacred feelings, that has been my rule, Mr. Verney, and although in this case there are mitigations as respects the survivors, considering the life of privation and solitude, and, as I have reason to know, of ceaseless self-abasement and remorse, which was all that remained to your unhappy relative, the Honourable Arthur Verney, it was hardly to be desired that the event should be very much longer deferred.
human
You, of course, know how the title is affected by this event--and the estates?