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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"

It sounds like flattery, but it ain't no flattery. And when it comes to beauty- and goodness too- she lays over them all. I hain't ever seen her since, but I reckon I've thought of her a many and a many a million times, and of her saying she would pray for me; and if ever I'd a thought it would do any good for me to pray for her, blamed if I wouldn't a done it or bust.


? ? ? ? Well, Mary Jane she lit out the back way, I reckon; because nobody see her go. When I struck Susan and the harelip, I says:


? ? ? ? "What's the name of them people over on t'other side of the river that you all goes to see sometimes?"


? ? ? ? They says:


? ? ? ? "There's several; but it's the Proctors, mainly."


? ? ? ? "That's the name," I says; "I most forgot it. Well, Miss Mary Jane she told me to tell you she's gone over there in a dreadful hurry- one of them's sick."


? ? ? ? "Which one?"


? ? ? ? "I don't know; leastways I kinder forget; but I think it's-"


? ? ? ? "Sakes alive, I hope it ain't Hanner?"


? ? ? ? "I'm sorry to say it," I says, "but Hanner's the very one.


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