It seemed to me that I had more time on my hands than I could ever manage.

"If I had more time I should like to show you all the bodies which are buried in these niches upon the walls, for they are the early popes and bishops of the Church, with their mitres, their croziers, and full canonicals. Go over to that one and look at it!" Kennedy went across, and stared at the ghastly head which lay loosely on the shredded and mouldering mitre.

How often have I sat down on the mossy wall that surrounded my churchyard, when I had more time for reverie than I have now,sat upon the mossy wall, under a great oak, whose branches came low down and projected far out,and looked at the rough gnarled bark, and at the pacing river, and at the belfry of the little church, and there and then thought of Mansie Wauch and of his vision of Future Years!

As I was in college when my brother was first stricken, I had more time at my disposal than the other members of the family, and for that reason spent much of it with him.