Here is Uncle Silas, all these years a preacher--at his own expense; all these years
doing good with all his might and every way he can think of--at his own expense, all the time; always been loved by everybody, and respected; always been peaceable and minding his own business, the very last man in this whole deestrict to touch a person, and everybody knows it.
Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping, because they're most always doing it on a raft; you'd see the axe flash and come down -- you don't hear nothing; you see that axe go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the K'CHUNK!
I was about to dig out from there in a hurry, but they was pretty close to me then, and sung out and begged me to save their lives -- said they hadn't been doing nothing, and was being chased for it -- said there was men and dogs a-coming.
So Jim and me set to majestying him, and doing this and that and t'other for him, and standing up till he told us we might set down.
When the bather had finished dressing, he kneeled on the grass, doing something with his hands, and again stood up with his bundle under his arm.
He had no remorse; but the evildoer who can hold that avenger at bay, cannot escape the slower torture of incessantly doing the evil deed again and doing it more efficiently.
But, as he heard his classes, he was always doing the deed and doing it better.
I was getting tired of doing without these conveniences.
His specialty was to tell you what any individual on the face of the globe was doing at the moment; and what he had done at any time in the past, and what he would do at any time in the future.
I should cut my own nose off in not doing the best I could at it.
The more you want me to do a thing, the more reason I shall have for never doing it.
I was haunted by the fear that she would, sooner or later, find me out, with a black face and hands,
doing the coarsest part of my work, and would exult over me and despise me.