Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom.

Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he WAS most free--and who was to blame for it?
Why, ME.

I couldn't get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way.

It got to troubling me so I couldn't rest; I couldn't stay still in one place.

It hadn't ever come home to me before, what this thing was that I was doing.