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 "That's the last I ever heard of 'em. I expect he's preached himself into paradise, and his wife into purgatory long 'fore this."

"Then he didn't think so much of her afterwards?"

"Of course he wouldn't, who does? There's somethin' kind o' strange about some o' them things. I never could understand it no how. You take a couple 'fore they's married, and how careful they'll be of each other, as if the very earth wa'nt good enough for 'em to walk on, and then 'fore the year's out half on 'em would git unmarried agin if they could."

"They should have a bottle of smelling salts by them all the time."

"Then another thing's mighty strange, when a body dies, how mighty good they is all at once. I never thought my old man was any better for bein' dead."

"Well, James and Mary are married, and I believe they will be happy."