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Updated: July 6, 2025

I hain't never heard no other woman's voice that's got jest the sound to't hern has; an' what with that, an' thinkin' how beat the Elder'd be, an' wonderin' who in thunder she was anyhow, I don't believe I opened my dum lips for a full minute; but she kind o' smiled, and sez she, 'Do you know Mr. Kinney? and that brought me to, and jest then the Elder he come along, and so I introduced 'em."

Helen Hunt Jackson - Saxe Holm's Stories