"I know what some on 'em say," said she; "I know what I might 'a'
said, jest as like as not, if it had been somebody else in my place. Oh,
she's afraid she ain't a goin' to git well, and so she's a seekin'
religion. She's scart into it!
"Wall, if folks that know me are a mind to say that, they may; though if
it comes to bein' scart into religion by what the doctors said, I should
'a' jined the church twenty times over!
"It ain't because I'm afraid o' what'll happen to me after I'm all dead
and peaceable. It's because I want a little more comfort while I'm a
livin'. Seems to me there's more comfort needed for the livin'.
"And ever since my Brother 'Lihu died, seems as though them last words o'
hisn have been a ringin' in my ears. 'I know somebody that'll watch. Who?
Jesus will! Jesus will!' over and over again. And when I get to worryin'
about things, and can't see no way through, or whoever's a goin' to
straighten em' out, it keeps agoin', 'Who, then? Jesus will! Jesus will!'
over and over. And 'Lihu wasn't a professor, neither; and maybe he hadn't
no right to take the comfort out o' them words that he did; and maybe I
hain't no right, and it's only like a string o' music that'll keep a
runnin' in a body's head sometimes and they not thinkin' nor meanin' any
thin'.
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