"No shame for me to say, teacher, I've allays had it in my mind that
Becky'd marry me. It grew up with me. I never thought o' no other girl
but her. Ye see she'd always knowed me, and it was more like a brother,
she said. She hadn't thought o' _that_. So, I says, I'll bide my time
patient, but I believed she'd turn to me.
"When Dave Rollin began to hang around there, I didn't feel exactly
kindly towards him, I don't pretend. The folks, they tried to set me on.
It 'ud a been mighty easy to 'a' gone on! I guess there ain't nobody
as knows us two 'ud deny I could handle four o' such as him, but a man
has got to say, fa'r play! fa'r play! and not put himself in other folks'
light. Thinks I, if his intentions are all squar' and honorable--and I
hadn't no reason, then, to say they wa'n't--and them, two take a fancy to
each other, why, it ain't no more than nateral!
"She was handsome enough, for a queen, and he had different manners from
us fellows down here, and purtier ways o' talkin' and lookin' at a girl,
as though if she didn't have him, it was goin' to knock 'im straight, and
she'd lived with such different folks, it made it vary interestin'; that
was nateral.
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