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 .

He drew a breath breath of satisfied vanity and his eyes returned return to the stage .

But to think think of your mother begging beg you with her last breath breath to kneel down and pray for her .

Early March , gray , quiet skies , and brown , quiet earth ; leafless and sad and lonely enough out there in the damp and silence , yet there I stood feeling the same rapture of pure delight delight in the first breath breath of spring that I used to as a child , and the five wasted years fell fall from me like a cloak , and the world was full of hope , and I vowed vow myself then and there to nature , and have been happy ever since .