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Somehow this had power to reach the listener as nothing before had done. Her aching eyes fell upon Jude, and a new fear contracted them. "Where did you get it the money Jude?" "That's my business. I'm only dealing with facts." "Yes, but I must know. It it isn't yours, Jude." "Isn't it?" Jude laughed. "Well, then, we'll call it mine for argerment. That pa of yours is a slick one!"
I argufied my case in such a way that she couldn't git round it, and I proved to her that I was the driest and crookedest old stick that ever the devil twisted out o' shape when it was a-growin'. On a suddent she turned the argerment agin me in a way that has stumped me ever since. 'You are right, Mr. Growther, she said, 'it was the devil and not the Lord that twisted you out of shape.
"The truth bust in on me like the sunlight into this old kitchen when we open the shutters of a summer mornin'. I saw that I was so completely floored in the argerment, and had made such a blasted old fool of myself all these years, that I just looked around for a knot-hole to crawl into.
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