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 I tried hard to make her think that the well-doin' of her children, and the immortal destiny of their souls, wuz of more consequence than the puckerin's of her dress, or the frizzle of her hair, but I couldn't seem to make her think as I did, and so I spoze it will have to go on. That girl's nasty mad swearin' talk settin' the example, and the twins follerin' on and workin' it out as plain as my grandmother ever worked a blue rose and pink horse from a exampler at school and framed it for us to look at. I knew the sampler the twins wuz workin' under that woman's teachin' wuz goin' to be framed in a stronger frame than I ever sot eyes on and hung on a higher wall. I felt bad, I knew that the frame wuz as strong as a deathless life, and the wall high as eternity.

Little Angenora's nurse wuzn't so fiery dispositioned as Algernon's. But she give her opiates to make her sleep when she wanted to go out with her bo's, and hurt her body in that way, and others I don't want to talk about, but mebby she didn't hurt her soul so much as she did Algernon's, 'tennyrate it didn't show quite so plain now, she didn't swear so loud as he did, nor throw herself so heavy.

But the opiates made the little creeter look wan and pale and sleepy more'n half the time, and I said to Miss Greene Smythe in this conversation, it seemed a shame to have her little constitution all ruined in that way onbeknown to her, before she wuz old enough to defend it. But she said she guessed she didn't give Angenora very much, she wuz a pale child naturally.

But I see her attention wuz wanderin' from what I wuz sayin' to sunthin she wuz beholdin' on the inside of her mind, and anon she asked me if I could tell her