"No, by God!"
"You would like to be better?"
"I would."
"Then you are of the same mind with God."
"Yes, but I'm not a fool. It won't do to say I should like to be. I must be it, and that's not so easy. It's damned hard to be good. I would have a fight for it, but there's no time. How is a poor devil to get out of such an infernal scrape?"
"Keep the commandments."
"That's it, of course; but there's no time, I tell you—no time; at least, so those cursed doctors will keep telling me."
"If there were but time to draw another breath, there would be time to begin."
"How am I to begin? Which am I to begin with?"
"There is one commandment which includes all the rest."