My whole soul revolts at it."
"See here, uncle," said the captain almost sternly, "I'm not going
to groan, sigh, weep, and take on in any of your camp-meeting
tactics. I am before the last great enemy and I know how to meet him
like a man and soldier, if not a Christian. I'm willing to do
anything not insincere or unmanly to meet my wife and children
again. If my thought and feeling for them at this time isn't right,
then I've been created wrong."
"Marse cap'n, I'se seen de mos' po'ful feelin's en miseries ob de
'victed ones vaperate lak de maunin' dew en I'se larn in my ole age
dat de sabin po'r ain' in we uns, ner in any ting we is ob oursefs
ner in w'at we po' lil chil'n of yearth kin do. De Lawd say, He come
ter seek en sabe de loss; I wuz loss. De wuss ting He enemies cud
speak agin 'Im wuz, Dis man 'ceiveth sinners: I wuz a sinner. I des
arst 'Im ter sabe me, en He did. I des trus' 'Im fer life en death
en does de bes' I kin. Dat's all. But hit's 'SPEARANCE, marse cap'n,
en I KNOWS hit.
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