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 "Oh, her sweet, tender heart seemed to be set upon him from the first, and I couldn't bear to break up those sweet dreams."

I begun to see where the land lay; I looked at Albina Ann sadly. There she sot, a full grown woman, with a waist like a pipe stail and shues with heels half a finger high, and tellin' she dassent warn her girl from the evil to come.

But I didn't say anything to add to her agitation, I simply remarked, "Well, I never see the time that I wouldn't pull Tirzah Ann out of the fire, if I see her blindly blunderin' into it, or haul back Thomas J. from precipices. But we hain't all made alike, and our faces all on 'em are but the faces of clay."

I never meant to give her a cut no more than nothin' in the world, I wuz talkin' Bible and feelin' riz up.

But I see her lift her lace handkerchief in her tight gloved hand, and then I see, her veil bein' up, that her color wuzn't nateral and the hull complexion made up. But, good land! I wuzn't goin' to try to make over Albina Ann Peak, she'd been made too long—she wuz about my age—but I told her she could send Dora down and I'd do the best I could for her, and she kissed me good-by through her veil (a white one with big, black dots). I thought no wonder Albina Ann's eyes has gin out, she wuz most as blind as a checkud adder. Why, if you'll believe it, she sot most all day with that veil over her face. I spoze she thought it wuz becomin' to her, but I should jest as soon wore blinders.

In about ten days Dora come, Josiah went after her with the democrat and brought her and three trunks and some satchels. When I see them trunks I felt dubersome, and mebby looked so, for thinkses I, "Is it a life