"He used to be so different, jolly and good-natured and sociable; you wouldn't know him now if you seen him then.

When your mamma was took it just seemed to wilt him right down.

He was awful sick himself for a spell, and when he got better he was like he is today.

Seems as if HE died too, as you might say, and ain't really lived since.

I'm awful sorry for Cap'n Marcellus.