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The visitor's drawling voice rose again, and she was not now constrained to reproach herself that she was too happy. "Yes'm, pore though we war then an' we couldn't look forward ter the Lord's prosperin' us some sence we never would hev lef the precious leetle lam'" his voice dwelt with unvanquished emphasis upon the obnoxious words "'mongst enny but them persumed ter be godly folks.
He said he was a calculatin' to get his whiskers cut that very day, and it was all for the best; he persumed they wus singed off in jest the shape he wanted 'em: and as for his nose, he wus always ashamed of it; it wus always too long, and he should be glad if there wus a piece gone off of it: Josiah had done him a favor to help him get rid of a piece of it.
Tyler war a toler'ble good soldier in the war, an' hed a good name in the church, but ye war persumed to be a plumb special Christian with no pledjure in this worl'." Laurelia winced anew. This repute of special sanctity was the pride of her ascetic soul.
He had not been a candidate for justice of the peace for nothing; he had absorbed something of the methods and spirit of the law through sheer propinquity to the office. "We-uns wouldn't be persumed ter know." And he ungrudgingly gave himself all the benefit of the doubt that the law accords. "That's a true word!" exclaimed Stephen, quick to console his conscience. "Jes' look at the fac's, now.
Josiah said it wus a powerful speech. He said uncle Nate said, "The feller that delivered it ort to be President of the United States:" he said, "That mind ort to be in the chair." And I said I persumed, from what I had heard of it, that his mind wuz tired, and ort to set down and rest. I spoke light, because Josiah Allen acted so high-headed about it.
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