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[With simple dignity]

No; an’ I dunno’s I have any call to say it now. I don’t know what’s a-goin’ to happen now!

If you do marry him you’ll find out lots o’ things about him that you didn’t know before. I know you think I’m a-sayin’ this fer selfish reasons! But I ain’t! Sence I first told you I loved you, Jude, I’ve learned to sing “less o’ self an’ more o’ Thee”! It’s not my own good I’m after now, but your good—only yourn! An’ I tell you, Jude, ef you marry Sid I know you’re a-goin’ to rue it the longest day you live!

Well, suppose you an’ Sid found out you both knowed the same thing about me?

The question is, which is right an’ which is wrong.

An’ who’s a-goin’ to settle that?

Him—up yonder!