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Updated: May 23, 2025
It's fortunate, too, in a way, 'cause I found out by accident years afterward that my fourth weddin'-ring come out of a pawn-shop, an' I never took much joy out of wearin' it. Bein' just alike, I wore another one mostly, even when Samuel was alive, but he never noticed.
Besides, I reckon 't wouldn't make no difference, for a man that'll go to a pawn-shop for a weddin'-ring ain't one to make a row about his wife's changin' it. When I spoke sharp to him about it, he snickered, an' said it was appropriate enough, though to this day I've never figured out precisely just what the old serpent meant by it.
"I swear! she give me a look like the judgment-day, and stoopin' down she pressed her lips onto that ring, and says she, 'That is my weddin'-ring, Eben! and goes into the house as still and white as a ghost; and I never see her again, nor never shall. Oh, Doctor! give me a drink!" I lifted the poor fellow, fevered and gasping, to an easier position, and wet his hot lips with fresh orange-juice.
I stared at him angrily. "What put that into your head?" I demanded. "I dunno, suh; hit dess look dat-a-way to me, suh." "You're a fool," I said, sharply. "No, suh, I ain' no fool, Mars' George. I done see de sign! Yaas, suh, I done see de sign." "What sign?" The old man chuckled, looked slyly at my left hand, then chuckled again. "Mars' George, yo' is wearin' yo' weddin'-ring now!" "A ring!
It isn't no weddin'-ring," says she, "for I never was what you might call wed," says she, "but I got it from the Jew t' make believe I was; for it didn't do nobody no hurt, an' it sort o' pleased me. You better take it, Moses, b'y," says she, "for the dirt o' the grave would only spile it," says she, "an' I'm not wantin' it no more.
His First's taste run that way, an' they ain't no children. "Yes, this amethyst is the weddin'-ring. I selected that on account of him bein' a widower. It's the nearest I'd come to wearin' second mournin' for a woman I can't exactly grieve after. The year not bein' up is why he stayed home this trip. He didn't like to be seen traversin' the same old haunts with Another till it was up.
"I must see that, please!" said the sheriff, laying a hand upon her arm. "'Tis but a weddin'-ring, sir" and she slipped it over her finger. Then she kissed it once, under the beam, and, lookin' into the dragoon's eyes, spoke very slow "Husband, our child shall go wi' you; an' when I want you he shall fetch you." and with that turned to the sheriff, saying: "I be ready, sir."
We're goin' to show some sense, and get married on the quiet, in a little village church I know of; and then we're goin' into retirement for a time, and when we come out we shall be old married people, and no one will want to pelt us with shoes and things. Now I've got a weddin'-ring in my pocket, and I hope it'll fit better than the other. And I've got a special license too.
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