But I sometimes wonder whether gentlemen like you, that was born respectable an' always was decent, an' has had the best of company all your lives, an' never had any bad habits, can know what an awful hole some of us poor common fellows sometimes get down into, an' don't seem to know how to get out of.

I s'pose, sir, there must have been lots of folks of that kind when Jesus was around on the world alive: don't you think so ?" "No doubt, no doubt," said the minister, looking into his hat as if with his eyes he was trying to make some notes for remarks on the succeeding Sunday.
"You know, sir, that in what's written about Him they have a good deal to say about the lots of attention that He gave to the poor.

I s'pose, if poor folks was then like they are now, most of them was that way through some faults of their own; because every body in this town that behaves himself an' always behaved himself manages to get along well enough.

It does seem to me, sir, that He must have gone about among folks a good deal like me." "That view of the matter never occurred to me," said the reverend gentleman, "and yet possibly there is a great deal to it.

You know, Mr.
Kimper, that was a long time ago.