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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: last--"God help him!" said she.
"Amen!" said Grenville, "for he never needed it more. But, indeed,
madam, I put no faith in such omens."
"But, Sir Richard, that bird has been seen for generations before
the death of any of his family. I know those who were at South
Tawton when his mother died, and his brother also; and they both
saw it. God help him! for, after all, he is a proper man."
"So many a lady has thought before now, Mrs. Leigh, and well for
him if they had not. But, indeed, I make no account of omens.
When God is ready for each man, then he must go; and when can he go
better?"
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