He assured assure me it was all rubbish , and exhorted exhort me , with his dying breath breath , to continue in the good old way , to follow his steps , and those of his father before him , and let my highest ambition be to walk honestly through the world , looking neither to the right hand nor to the left , and to transmit the paternal acres to my children in , at least , as flourishing a condition as he left them to me .

His countenance became intolerably fervid fervid , as he oratorically assured assure me -- gesticulating gesticulate with a long ruler at the other end of the room -- that if his services in the morning were useful , how indispensable , then , in the afternoon ?

I slept sleep about eight hours , as I was afterwards assured assure ; and it was no wonder , for the physicians , by the emperor ’s order order , had mingled mingle a sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine .