Well, I--I don't know why it never struck me, either.

If Georgianna--if my wife had been alive, she'd have noticed, I'll bet, but I didn't.

'Twas only last evenin'; when he came to get her to go to the pictures, that it came across me, you might say, like--like a wet, cold rope's end' slappin' me in the face.

I give you my word, Jed, I--I kind of shivered all over.

She means--she means somethin' to me, that little girl and--and--" He seemed to find it hard to go on.