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Why, I tell you, Miss Lady, I am half-dying of lonesomeness right now, right here in my own home, on my own ground, in the only place in God A'mighty's world where I am fit to live." "You must not," said Miss Lady, and turned toward him eyes in which stood sudden tears. "I must go. I must go away." "Listen, I tell you," said Blount again, sternly, and put out a hand as she would have risen.
I remember the strange conclusion of one of them which reached my ears. For, as the women reluctantly parted, they raised their voices, and one said piously, "Wal, they'll git paid for 't, one o' these days. Gawd A'mighty's above the Devil"; to which the other, with loud conviction: "Yes, and always will be, thank Gawd!" This ended the talk.
They bushwhacked us dunn' the war, 'n' they've laywayed us 'n' shot us to pieces ever sence; but now, ef God A'mighty's willin', the thing's a-goin' to be settled one way or t'other at last, I reckon." He stopped a moment to think. The men's breathing could be heard, so quiet was the room, and Rufe went on telling in detail, slowly, as if to himself, the wrongs the Lewallens had done his people.
Gilmore leaned back in his easy-chair and crossed his legs. "Go on!" he ordered briefly. "A handy-man like me doin' all kinds of jobs for all kinds of people is sure to see some curious things, ain't he, boss?" "Well?" "I'm here to tell you what I seen, boss; and every word of it will be God A'mighty's truth!" "It had better be!" rejoined Gilmore quietly, but with significant emphasis.
The strange gentleman looked at him as if in pity for his ignorance or prejudice, and said: 'Well, sir, I tell you this there ain't a engine with its biler bust, in God A'mighty's free U-nited States, so fixed, and nipped, and frizzled to a most e-tarnal smash, as that young critter, in her luxurious location in the Tower of London will be, when she reads the next double-extra Watertoast Gazette.
The knock came again, this time more insistent. Then a thick voice spoke, muffled by the intervening door: "Daddy Nepshun, is you awake? For Gawd A'mighty's sake, Daddy Nepshun, lemme in!" The old man stepped to the door and flung it wide. The figure that had been crouching against it tumbled in and lay panting on the floor.
Us caan't lift it, but if I pull a plank or two out o' the pig's house an' put a harrow chain round 'em, we could get the cross on an' let a horse pull un up theer to the hill, and set un up. Then us would have done all man can." He pointed to the bosom of the adjacent hill, now glowing in great sunset light. "Starve me! but you 'm wise. Us'll set the thing up under the A'mighty's eye.
A moment later he heard through the sapling door a strange cry a woman's cry a man's cry and he turned and walked heavily back into the spruce forest. "Why, you ornery little cuss," said Falkner, pausing with a forkful of beans half way to his mouth. "Where in God A'mighty's name did YOU come from?"
He'll pay the evil-doer his just dues wi'out no help from you." "I've got a voice in my ear, Mary a voice louder'n any human voice; an' it bids me be doin' as the instrument of God A'mighty's just rage. If you can help me, then I bid you do it, if not, let me be away. Did you read any o' that theer letter so much as a word, or did 'e larn wheer 'twas writ from?"
An' us caan't say 'sactly what size a sin do look to God A'mighty's eye. An' us have got the Lard's way o' handlin' sich like troubles writ out clear eh? Eh, Polly? He dedn' preach no sermon at the time neither." The old man prattled on, setting out the position in the most favorable light to Joan that seemed possible to him. But his listener was one no longer.
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