Many's the night I've stood on the other bank of that pool and listened to you, and I tried to throw myself in to keep from hearing you, but I didn't dare.

I knew God would send me to burn forever, but I'd better done it; for now, He has set the burning on my body, and every hour it is slowly eating the life out of me.

The doctor says it's a cancer----" Mrs.Comstock exhaled a long breath.

Her grip on the hoe relaxed and her stature lifted to towering height.
"I didn't know, or care, when I came here, just what I did," she said.
"But my way is beginning to clear.

If the guilt of your soul has come to a head, in a cancer on your body, it looks as if the Almighty didn't need any of my help in meting out His punishments.