Sarah, she wouldn't let me come home any sooner.

I was dreadful upset about it." "I've been meaner than sin, an' I don't know as it makes it any better, because I couldn't seem to help it," said Richard Alger.

"I didn't forget you a single minute, Sylvia, an' I was awful sorry for you, an' there wasn't a Sabbath night that I didn't want to come more than I wanted to go to Heaven! But I couldn't, I couldn't nohow.

I've always had to travel in tracks, an' no man livin' knows how deep a track he's in till he gets jolted out of it an' can't get back.

But I've got into a track now, an' I'll die before I get out of it.