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Updated: June 23, 2025
I can't blame her for bein' embittered aginst men and the laws they have made; for, if ever a woman has been tormented, she has. It honestly seems to me as if I never see a human creeter so afflicted as Dorlesky Burpy has been, all her life. Why, her sufferin's date back before she wus born; and that is goin' pretty fur back.
And then I went on and told him all how she and her relations had suffered from want of rights, and how dretfully she had suffered from the Ring, till I declare, a talkin about them little children of hern, and her agony, I got about as fierce actin' as Dorlesky herself; and entirely unbeknown to myself, I talked powerful on intemperance and Rings and sound.
I leaned my umberell in a easy, careless position against a adjacent chair, adjusted my green veil in long, graceful folds, I hain't vain, but I like to look well, and then I at once told him of my errents. I told him "I had brought three errents to him from Jonesville, one for myself, and two for Dorlesky Burpy." He bowed, but didn't say nothin': he looked tired.
And I says, "I think myself that Dorlesky is a little onreasonable. I myself am willin' to wait till next week. But she has suffered dretfully from intemperance, dretfully from the Rings, and dretfully from want of Rights. And her sufferin's have made her more voyalent in her demands, and impatienter." And then I fairly groaned as I did the rest of the errent.
But it kep' holt of Dorlesky: it bound her tight to her uncle, while he run through with what little property she had; while he sunk lower and lower, until at last he needed the very necessaries of life; and then he bound her out to work, to a woman who kep' a drinkin'-den, and the lowest, most degraded hant of vice.
"Life is a curious conundrum anyway, and hard to guess. But we can try to get the right answer to it as fur as we can. Dorlesky feels that one of the answers to the conundrum is in gettin' her rights. She feels jest so. "I myself have got all the rights I need, or want, as fur as my own happiness is concerned.
And Dorlesky come to Jonesville to live with a sister of that good woman; changed her name, so's it wouldn't be so easy to find her; grew up to be a nice, industrious girl. And when the woman she was took by, died, she left Dorlesky quite a handsome property. And finally she married Lank Rumsey, and did considerable well, it was s'posed.
"Men and wimmen are made with divine impulses and desires, and human needs and weaknesses, needin' the same heavenly light, and the same human aids and helps. The law should meet out to them the same rewards and punishments. "Dorlesky says you call wimmens angels, and you don't give 'em the rights of the lowest beasts that crawls upon the earth.
And so, the law has made it perfectly impossible for her to mould it indirectly through him. What Dorlesky does, she must do herself." "Ah! A sad thing for Dorlesky. I trust that you have no grievance of the kind, I trust that your estimable husband is as it were, estimable." "Yes, Josiah Allen is a good man. As good as men can be.
Twice Dorlesky run away, bein' virtuous but humbly; but them strong, protectin' arms of the law that had held her mother so tight, jest reached out, and dragged her back agin. Upheld by them, her uncle could compel her to give her service wherever he wanted her to work; and he wus owin' this woman, and she wanted Dorlesky's work, so she had to submit.
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