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Updated: June 6, 2025
Starbottle with her eyes still fixed on the colonel's face. "Gone to 'ts m'o'r. Gone East on shteamer, yesserday. Waffed by fav'rin gales to suff'rin p'rent. Thash so!" Mrs. Starbottle did not move. The colonel felt his chest slowly collapsing, but steadied himself against a chair, and endeavored to beam with chivalrous gallantry not unmixed with magisterial firmness upon her as she sat.
Thou know'st poor, patient, suff'rin, dear how thou didst work for her, seet'n all day long in her little chair at thy winder, and how she died, young and misshapen, awlung o' sickly air as had'n no need to be, an' awlung o' working people's miserable homes. A muddle! Aw a muddle! Louisa approached him; but he could not see her, lying with his face turned up to the night sky.
I rode along for a spell, admirin' as much of the scenery as I could see between the women's hats, then I told the skipper of the thing that I wanted to make port at 82nd Street. He said 'Ugh, apparently suff'rin' from the same complaint the dog woman had, and we went on and on. At last I got kind of anxious and asked him again. "'Eighty-second! says he, ugly. 'This is Ninety-first.
He wa'n't satisfied to git the best piece an' the biggist piece he hated to hev any one else git anythin' at all. I don't believe he ever laughed in his life, except over some kind o' suff'rin' man or beast an' what'd tickle him the most was to be the means on't.
That lovin', givin' up, suff'rin', dyin' part, ye know it all yerself, an' I can't kinder say much on it, 'cept when I 'm jest all by myself, or 'long o' him. "That a'ternoon I took my ole Bible that I had n't read much sence I growed up, an' I went out into the woods 'long the river, an' 'stid o' fishin' I jest sot down an' read that hull story.
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