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Updated: May 7, 2025
"'Because, says he, 'and don't you for your life tell no one, only watch her and see she's possessed by the devil, and more an half a ghost. Have you got a Bible? "'Yes, sir, says I. For my mother put my little Bible in my box, and I knew it was there: and by the same token, though the print's too small for my ald eyes, I have it in my press to this hour.
The pathetic part of it is that she can't read any more, although she puts on her spectacles and pretends that she can. Three years ago she confided to me that her eye-sight was 'failing a bit. She's not blind yet, by any means, but print's beyond her.
Print's different. You see some nonsense about yourself in a newspaper, and you think I'm an idiot for believing it. But you read nonsense about me, and you believe it. You don't stop and think; 'That's a lie; he isn't that sort of a man. No. You just wonder why I'm such a darn fool." "Then these cannibals have got us where " "Dotage!" Talbot Potter broke in, halting under the chandelier.
Might get us into trouble, eh?" "Humph! I don't know who with. Everybody's talkin' about it, anyway. Up to the boardin' house they've been talking about mighty little else ever since he died." "I know, but talk's one thing and print's another. I'm goin' to leave it out.
"I'm not reading all that," honesty compelled Anne to confess, as she beamed with pleasure at Mrs. Collins's praise. "I read when the words are short, and when they're long and the print's solid, I make it up out of my head to fit the pictures." "Ah! you come of high-learnt folks," said Mrs. Collins, admiringly.
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