However, when I was despairing quite of him, up he comes with his bag quite correct, but only one letter to sort in it, and that letter was, miss, the very identical of the one you held in your hands just now.

And a letter as like it as two peas had come when we buried old Sally.

It puzzled me then, but I had no clew to it; only now, you see, putting this and that together, the things we behold must have some meaning for us; and to let them go without it is against the will of God; especially when at the bottom of the bag." "If you hear so soon of any stranger in the valley," I asked, to escape the re-opening of the opening question, "how can that man come and go--a man of remarkable stature and appearance--without any body asking who he is ?" "You scarcely could have put it better, miss, for me to give the answer.
They do ask who he is, and they want to know it, and would like any body to tell them.

But being of a different breed, as they are, from all outside the long valley, speaking also with a different voice, they fear to talk so freely out of their own ways and places.

Any thing they can learn in and out among themselves, they will learn; but any thing out of that they let go, in the sense of outlandish matter.