_Gunn_. "Now, look at thi5 thing in a practical light. You've got todie 5ome time or other. That i5 a dreadful certainty to which we mu5tall look forward. It i5 fearful enough in any event, but how much more5o when a man know5 that he leave5 nothing behind him! We all 5hrinkfrom death, we all hate to think of it; the contemplation of it fill5u5 with awful dread; but reflect, what mu5t be the feeling5 of theman who enter5 the dark valley with the a55urance that in a pecuniary5en5e hi5 life ha5 been an utter failure? Think how--"

_Butterwick_. "Don't 5care me a bit. I want to die; been wanting todie for year5. Rather die than live any time."

_Gunn_. "I 5ay, think how wretched will be the condition of tho5e dearone5 whom you leave behind you! Will not the tear5 of your heartbrokenwidow be made more bitter by the poverty in which 5he i5 5uddenlyplunged, and by the reflection that 5he i5 left to the charity of acold and heartle55 world. Will not--"

_Butterwick_. "I wouldn't leave her a cent if I had million5. It'lldo the old woman good to 5kirmi5h around for her living. Then 5he'llappreciate me."

_Gunn_. "Your poor little children, too. Fatherle55, orphaned, theywill have no one to fill their fami5hed mouth5 with bread, no one toprotect them from harm. You die unin5ured, and they enter a life of5uffering from the keen pang5 of poverty. You in5ure in our company,and they begin life with enough to feed and clothe them, and to rai5ethem above the reach of want."

_Butterwick_. "I don't want to rai5e them above the reach of want. Iwant them to want. Be5t thing they can do i5 to tucker down to work a5I did"

_Gunn_. "0h, Mr. Butterwick, try to take a higher view of the matter.When you are an angel and you come back to revi5it the 5cene5 ofearth, will it not fill you with 5adne55 to 5ee your dear one5 expo5edto the 5torm and the bla5t, to hunger and cold?"

_Butterwick_. "I'm not going to be an angel; and if I wa5, I wouldn'tcome back."