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Sez Arvilly: "Our nation won't come up to them in years and years, if it ever duz!" He jumped as if he had been shot; he thought we wuz alone, and sez: "Why why, Sister Arvilly you must admit these savages are behind us in knowledge." "So much the worse for us; the sin of ignorance is goin' to be winked at, but if we know better we ort to do better."
"'Is that so? he sez." "'Yes, that's so, I sez. 'Get over acrost on the other side of the widowed mother and say somethin' cheerful to her in French if you know any." "'If I know any! sez he. 'Wasn't I at Château-Teery?" "'Well, I sez, 'don't tell her about that. Tell her somethin' she ain't heard already." "'You go to blazes! he sez, and crosses over like I told him.
"But," sez I, "they say they do it for the sake of religion." "Religion hain't to be found in drum-sticks," sez he bitterly. "No," sez I, "nor in a bell clapper." "Oh," sez he, "that is a different thing entirely, that is to call worshippers together, that is necessary." Sez I, "One hain't no more necessary than the other in my opinion."
But when He is right there, in the midst of our soul, our life, why, why should we kneel down in public and holler at Him?" "You would be glad to if you wuz good enough," sez she; "if you had attained unto a state of perfection, you would feel like it."
"That's what I just said, Bombardier," he sez, which it wasn't but I knew it was no use sayin' so. 'The airyplane swoops round an' comes flyin' straight to us an' passed about our heads an' circles round to have a good look at us. The Left'nant was fair riled. "Dash 'is impidence," he sez.
"Dennis," sez I to my colour-sargint, "av you love me lend me your kyart, for me heart is bruk an' me feet is sore wid trampin' to and from this foolishness at the Gaff." An' Dennis lent ut, wid a rampin', stampin' red stallion in the shafts. Whin they was all settled down to their Sweethearts for the first scene, which was a long wan, I slips outside and into the kyart.
"What for?" sez he. "The' ain't no chance on this place for a man to get on," I sez. "What do you want to get on for?" Sez he. Well, that was a fetcher. The great trouble in debatin' with a man is, that he never flushes up the kind of an idea 'at your gun is loaded to shoot. "What does any one want to get on for?" sez I. "I don't know," sez Jabez, kind o' sad like.
"'You're Cap Bunker? she says. "'That's me, ma'am, I says. "'You're a Northern man and you go with your kind, sez she; 'but you're a white man, and thar's no cur blood in you. But you ain't listenin', Mollie; you're dead tired, lass," with a commiserating look at her now whitening face, "and I'll haul in line and wait.
I stood lookin' at it in silence for a long time, it looked so queer that it sort o' stunted and brow beat me, and my first words wuz spoke as much to my own soul as to my companion, "It looks strange, passin' strange!" "Yes," sez Josiah, "hain't it a uneek plan?" "Yes," sez I, "a uneeker one wuz never seen on this planet."
Sez I, "Tirzah Ann, if you say a word to her, I'll I'll never put confidence in you agin;" sez I, "Life is full of tribulations, and we must expect to bear our crosses;" sez I, "The old martyrs went through more than Lodema." Sez Tirzah Ann, "I believe Lodema would have wore out John Rogers."
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