9/38 Dorinda took to her at once, being attracted in the beginning, I think, by the name. "They call you Comfort Paine," she said, "and you are a comfort to everybody else's pain. Yet you ain't out of pain a minute scurcely, yourself. If 'twan't wicked I'd say that name was give you by the Old Scratch himself, as a sort of divilish joke. |