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Arter wha's come and gone, we t'ree can't hob an' nob, as ye may say, together. My ch'ice is made, then, and this is how I ha' fixed it up. When yer day's wark is done, and you come home, I go out o' your house. Sune as yer up an' away i' th' mornin', I come in and ridd up yer missus and wait on 'er, while the woman's in need of me."
"An' de way fer you ter close yo' do' tightes' ag'inst 'im is ter take me in his place. He ain' got no claim on you no mo'. He tuk his ch'ice 'cordin' ter w'at de lawyer tol' 'im, an' 'termine' dat he wa'n't yo' husban'. Ef he wa'n't yo' husban', he had no right ter take yo' money, an' ef he comes back here ag'in you kin hab 'im tuck up an' sent ter de penitenchy fer stealin' it."
At last Johnson stood up and shook himself. "Well," he drawled, "I s'pose we mus' be doin' the best we kin fer poor old Joe." "He ain't left us no ch'ice!" snapped McWha. "We can't leave him here in the house," continued Johnson, irresolutely. "No, no!" answered McWha. "He'd ha'nt it, an' us, too, ever after, like as not.
But where a man has done an act o' injustice, a wrang to his neebour, he has no ch'ice, it seems to me, but confess it: that neebour is the one from whom first he has to ask and receive forgiveness; and that neebour alone can lift the burden o' 't aff o' him! Besides, the confession may be but fair, to baud the blame frae bein laid at the door o' some innocent man!
Then came the thought of her own wedding garment awaiting its destiny. "I ain't even hed a beau, yet," she sighed, "but the Boarder says that I will that red-headed girls ain't never old maids from ch'ice." With this sustaining thought, she proceeded to the dining-room.
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