"Dead; of course he is dead. What of that? I wish he had been dead ten years ago,--or twenty. Do you suppose I am to forgive him because he is dead? I'll heap his grave with curses, if that can be of avail to punish him."
"You can only punish the living that way."
"And I will punish them;--but not by cursing them. My uncle John shall have such a life of it for the next year or two that he shall bitterly regret the hour in which he has stepped between me and my rights."
"I do not believe that he has done so."

"I wish he had been dead ten years ago. Do you suppose I am to forgive him because he is dead? I'll heap his grave with curses. And my uncle John shall have such a life of it for the next year or two that he shall bitterly regret the hour in which he has stepped between me and my rights."
"I do not believe that he has done so."
