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And I sez, "I always felt that you shet yourselves up too much and mourned too deep." "Wall," sez Lateza Alzina, "my folks always brung me up to think that it would be apt to make talk if folks went out any while they wuz in black."
"These are my idees, Lateza Alzina," sez I; "but howsumever, in this, as in every other matter that don't have any moral wickedness in it, let everybody be fully persuaded in their own mind, if they have got a mind, and do as they want to, if they know what they want to do."
But mebby they'll settle down and be more megum when the pendulum gits kinder settled down some, and its vibration ceases to be so vibratin'. Anyway, I'm glad to see 'em a-steppin' out of their weeds, and I told 'em so. Sez I, "You wuz in mournin' a awful while, wuzn't you?" Oren fairly gritted his teeth, and before Lateza Alzina could speak, he busted out "By Vum! I've mourned all I'm a-goin' to!
And Oren bought a three-seated carriage, and they jest scoured the hull country went to all the parties they could hear on, and the fairs, and camp-meetin's, and such. They wuz on the go the hull time; and Lateza Alzina got to likin' it as much as Oren did.
"And," sez I, "folks would talk whilst you wuz dyin', anyway; you can't keep folks from talkin'." Sez I, "Like as not they'd say it wuz a guilty conscience that made you droop round and stay to home so." "Wall," sez Lateza Alzina, "I wuz brought up to think that it showed so much respect to them that wuz gone to stay to home in black."
This summer Lateza Alzina told me that they had been up to the upper end of Canada and British America on a tower, and come home round by Lake Champlain, and Lake George, and Saratoga; they'd stayed there three weeks, and then they went home and hurried and got ready for the Fair.
Besides their bein' so old, she had come from a mournin' family her folks always mourned for everybody and everything they could. And the six wimmen was all swathed in crape, and the hull house smelt of crape and logwood. As I sez more formally, Lateza was brung up to it. Wall, black wuz becomin' to her.
"Folks don't have to stay indoors to remember, Lateza. I have remembered folks out-doors, it seems to me, more than I ever did in the house. "And the voice you loved would seem to be a-tellin' you, 'Keep well, beloved, so you can do some of my day's work I had to lay down, as well as your own, and the meetin' will be all the gladder and more joyous.
But they didn't seem to mind it; I guess they wuz ust to it, and the girls kinder put in and laughed too. Lateza Alzina didn't laugh out loud, but she kinder snickered some. It made me feel queer. I see I see the truth; the bow had been drawed too tight back, and now it wuz a-goin' to shoot too fur way over the mark. But still I felt that Oren had some truth on his side.
Yes, it wuz Oren Rumble and Lateza, his wife, and the hull of the family the five girls, Barthena, Calfurna, Dalphina, Albiny, and Lateza. But what a change had swep' over the family sence I had last looked on 'em!