She hasn't been out of her bed, except when she was lifted, for eight years." "Dear me! dear me!" exclaimed Mrs.Carr.

"Oh, I hope I'll never be that way.

What'u'd you ever do child, if I'd get to be like that ?" "No danger, mother dear, of your ever being like Mrs.White," said Mercy, with an incautious emphasis, which, however, escaped Mrs.Carr's recognition.
"Why, how can you be so sure I mightn't ever get into jest so bad a way, child?
There's none of us can say what diseases we're likely to hev or not to hev.

Now there's never been a case o' lung trouble in our family afore mine, not 's fur back 's anybody kin trace it out; 'n' there's been two cancers to my own knowledge; 'n' I allus hed a most awful dread o' gettin' a cancer.

There ain't no death like thet.