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Wall, Dorlesky went home about 4 P.M., I a promisin' at the last minute as sacred as I could, without usin' a book, to do her errents for her. I urged her to stay to supper, but she couldn't; for she said the man where she worked was usin' his horses, and couldn't come after her agin. And she said that "Mercy on her! how could anybody eat any more supper after such a dinner as I had got?"
But it wus this last move of hisen that killed her; for I tell you, it is pretty tough on a mother to have her baby, a part of her own life, took right out of her arms, and gin to a stranger. For this uncle of hern wus a entire stranger to Dorlesky when the will wus made.
And then, to kinder get her mind off of her sufferin's, I asked her how her sister Susan wus a gettin' along. I hadn't heard from her for years she married Philemon Clapsaddle; and Dorlesky spoke out as bitter as a bitter walnut a green one. And says she, "She is in the poorhouse." "Why, Dorlesky Burpy!" says I. "What do you mean?" "I mean what I say.
Says I, "Intemperance is bad for Dorlesky, and bad for the Nation." He murmured somethin' about the "revenue that the liquor-trade brought to the Government."
Says I, in the deep, solemn tones befitting the threat, for I wuzn't the woman to cheat Dorlesky when she was out of sight, and use the wrong tones at the wrong times no, I used my deepest and most skairful one says I, "Dorlesky told me to tell you that if you didn't do her errent, you should not be the next President of the United States." He turned pale. He looked agitated, fearful agitated.
Why, it seemed as if every thing under the sun and moon, that could happen to a woman, had happened to Dorlesky, painful things, and gaulin'. Jest before Lank parted with her, she fell on a broken sidewalk: some think he tripped her up, but it never was proved. But, anyway, Dorlesky fell, and broke her hip bone; and her husband sued the corporation, and got ten thousand dollars for it.
"Josiah believes it, and Dorlesky Burpy, and lots of other Jonesvillians." Says I, "To set down in a chair that an angel has jest vacated, a high chair under the full glare of critical inspection, is a tegus place. I don't s'pose Garfield was really an angel, but his sufferin's and martyrdom placed him almost in that light before the world. "And you have filled that chair, and filled it well.
"No: men will be gentler, and wimmen nobler; and they will both come nearer bein' angels, though most probable they won't be angels: they won't be any too good then, I hain't a mite afraid of it." "Can you, and will you, do Dorlesky's errents?" Wall, he said, "as far as giving Dorlesky her rights was concerned, he felt that natural human instinct was against the change."
"A dog don't have to listen to soul-sickening speeches from them that deny it freedom and justice about its bein' a damosk rose, and a seraphine, when it knows it hain't: it knows, if it knows any thing, that it is a dog. "You see, Dorlesky has been kinder embittered by her trials that politics, corrupt legislation, has brought right onto her.
"I know it," says I. "I told Dorlesky it would. But she feels jest so, and I promised to do her errent; and I am a doin' it." Agin he rubbed his brow in deep thought, and agin he says, "I don't think Dorlesky is unreasonable in her demands, only in the length of time she has set." Says I, "That is jest what I told Dorlesky. I didn't believe you could do her errents this week.