Biblis painting

am in my seventy-eighth year." ¡¡¡¡"You have been useful all your life; steadily and constantly occupied; trusted, respected, and looked up to?" ¡¡¡¡"I have been a man of business, ever since I have been a man. Indeed, I may say that I was a man of business when a boy." ¡¡¡¡"See what a place you fill at seventy-eight. How many people will miss you when you leave it empty!" ¡¡¡¡"A solitary old bachelor," answered Mr. Lorry, shaking his head. "There is nobody to weep for me." ¡¡¡¡"How can you say that? Wouldn't She weep for you? Wouldn't her child?" ¡¡¡¡"Yes, yes, thank God. I didn't quite mean what I said." ¡¡¡¡"It is a thing to thank God for; is it not?
" ¡¡¡¡"Surely, surely." ¡¡¡¡"If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?"