But I didn't tink dat vas de first ding for a man like you to tink about ven you vas talkin' about a feller dat has broke off all his bad habits and is tryin' to be yoost right." The deacon felt awkward for a moment.

He did not like to be reminded of any of his faults by a neighbor, much less by one who belonged to a church so widely different from his own.
"Why, of course not," said he; "of course, I am thinking about the man's eternal salvation and about his future; but, to tell you the truth, I haven't got much faith in his professions.

A man that don't get any further than he has done, and that don't seem willing to learn from them that's his betters and has gone into such things a good deal deeper than he has, ain't very likely to hold out.

And the last condition of that man will be worse than the first." "Vell," said the shop-keeper, "a good deal depends on dat.

You vas a member of von shurch and I vas a member of anoder, deacon, and we can talk togeder like brudders,--a little vay, anyhow.