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Updated: June 23, 2025
It wus after Lank had begun to kinder get after this other woman, and wus indifferent to his wive's looks, that Dorlesky had a new set of teeth on her upper jaw. And they sort o' sot out, and made her look so bad that it fairly made her ache to look at herself in the glass. And they hurt her gooms too. And she carried 'em back to the dentist, and wanted him to make her another set.
And then I told him jest how she had suffered from the Whisky Ring, and how she had suffered from not havin' her rights; and I told him all about her relations sufferin', and that Dorlesky wanted the Ring broke, and her rights gin to her, within seven days at the longest. He rubbed his brow thoughtfully, and says, "It will be difficult to accomplish so much in so short a time."
Her property, put with what little he had, made 'em a comfortable home; and they had two pretty little children, a boy and a girl. But when the little girl was a baby, he took to drinkin', neglected his business, got mixed up with a whisky-ring, whipped Dorlesky not so very hard.
I pitied him, and would gladly have refrained from troubling him more. But duty hunched me; and when she hunches, I have to move forward. Says I in measured tones, each tone measurin' jest about the same, half duty, and half pity for him, "Dorlesky Burpy sent these errents to you. She wanted intemperance done away with the Whiskey Ring broke right up.
But you can see for yourself that she is right, only in the time she has sot." "Yes," he said. "He see she wuz." And says he, "I wish the 3 could be reconciled." "What 3?" says I. Says he, "The liquor traffic, liberty, and Dorlesky." And then come the very hardest part of my errent. But I had to do it, I had to.
"Why, good land! if you understand the nature of a woman, you would know that my love for him, my happiness, the content and safety I feel about him, and our boy, makes me realize the sufferin's of Dorlesky in havin' her husband and boy lost to her, makes me realize the depth of a wive's, of a mother's, agony, when she sees the one she loves goin' down, goin' down so low that she can't reach him; makes me feel how she must yearn to help him in some safe, sure way.
He will watch over you, and me and Josiah, and Dorlesky. He will help us, and take care of us." So I begun to feel real well agin a little after dusk. The next morning Cicely wuzn't able to leave her room, no sick seemin'ly, but fagged out. She was a delicate little creeter always, and seemed to grow delicater every day.
They suffered accordin' to law, every one of 'em. But it wus tuff for 'em very tuff. And their all bein' so dretful humbly wuz and is another drawback to 'em; though that, too, is perfectly lawful, as everybody knows. And Dorlesky looks as bad agin as she would otherways, on account of her teeth.
And then, thinkin' I must say sunthin', and wantin' to strike a safe subject, and a good-lookin' one, I says, "Where is your aunt Eunice'es girl? that pretty girl I see to your house once." "That girl is in the lunatick asylum." "Dorlesky Burpy!" says I. "Be you a tellin' the truth?" "Yes, I be, the livin' truth. She went to New York to buy millinary goods for her mother's store.
It would have impressed some folks dretful, but it didn't me. I says reasonably, "Dorlesky would have been glad to flew above 'em. But the ring and the vile laws laid holt of her, unbeknown to her, and dragged her down. And there she is, all dragged and bruised and brokenhearted by it. She didn't meddle with the political ring, but the ring meddled with her.
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