About a month ago I was present at a serious occasion of the reading of a will. I can remember one passage that particularly struck me. It ran something 【B1】 this. "And I direct that $10,000 be 【B2】 to old William B, whom I have wished to help for many years, 【B3】 always put off doing so." It 【B4】 the last words of a dying man. But the story does not 【B5】 there. When the lawyers came to 【B6】 out the bequest (遗赠) , they discovered that old William B had 【B7】 , too, and so the 【B8】 deed was lost. I felt rather 【B9】 about that. It seemed to me a most regrettable 【B10】 that William should not have had his $10,000 just 【B11】 somebody kept putting 【B12】 giving it to him. And from 【B13】 accounts, William could have done with the 【B14】 . But I am sure 【B15】 there are thousands of kindly little deeds waiting to be 【B16】 today, which are being put off " 【B17】 later. " George Herbert, in praise of good intentions, 【B18】 that "One of these days is better than 【B19】 of these days. " But I say that 【B20】 is better than all.