Too glad to get away from her everlastin' tongue-clackin'.

But when 'twas put right up to me this way, I--I declare I was all fussed up.

I felt sick and I guess I looked so.

Emeline was lookin' at me and seemin'ly waitin' for me to say somethin'; yet I couldn't say it.

And Bennie D.laughed, quiet but wicked.
"That laugh fixed me.