I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." For a moment Miss Sally studied his face, and she saw only a genuine contrition there, and a regret so deep that she was sorry for him.

There could be no doubt of his sincerity.
"Well!" she exclaimed, with a breath of relief; "I do believe you didn't know you was! I believe that book's got so ground into you that you can't help but talk it, like Benny Tenneker, who got so used to climbin' trees an' fallin' out of 'em that he used to climb the bedposts an' fall of of 'em in his sleep without wakin' up.

Mrs.Doc Weaver's his aunt, an' when he visited her he nearly got killed fallin' out of bed when he was tryin' to climb a bed post when there wasn't not on the bed.

He'd got so he could fall out of any high place an' light safe, but he wasn't used to fallin' off of low ones.

He was such a nice boy.